Jenison, MI DUI and OWI Law Firms & Lawyers

You can be charged in Michigan and if you are get an attorney to seek to keep this off your record. Learn a lesson, your actions determine your future.

In any event, you will have a misdemeanor on your record and be a convicted criminal. If you plead to a DUI, the consequences will be a little more serious than the others: possible jail or work, fine 3 month school, maybe ignition interlock device, and DUI probation conditions. A reckless with alcohol involved or 'Wet' Reckless is only slightly less serious. If has no license suspension consequences, but there will be probation, a fine, a school and maybe other conditions of probation, including no alcohol while driving and submit to chemical test. It is priorable for up to 10 years as a DUI. That is, if you have a wet reckless and get busted for DUI again it will be treated as a second offense and there will be mandatory jail and generally harsher conditions of probation. If you are talking about pleading to a straight reckless then it will have probation, may not have alcohol related probation conditions and no school. So the answer to your question: how will this effect my employment, depends on what is important to your employer. Do you drive for work? Will DUI increase his insurance while Reckless won't? Will being on probation be a problem? If you are looking for work, then in all cases, you'll have to answer yes to the question have you ever been convicted of a misdemeanor. If you can get them to offer a dry reckless, you can probably beat the case at trial. Remember, 100% of guilty pleas result in convictions. Trial mean chance of no conviction.

Sorry, there is no way to expunge a drunk driving offense. They really stay on your record for life. That is because if someone receives 3 convictions in their lifetime, they can be charged with a felony.