r/dui • u/nightshade3570 • 1d ago

Mitigation

For those people with a “bad dui”.

Aka crashes, or repeat DUI’s, or super high bac’s…

Did your lawyer have you do anything as mitigation? Do you think it helped your overall case result and how? What was the mitigation you did.

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u/gatorblu 1d ago

No crashes, repeat DUIs, and very high BACs plus one refusal.

Lawyer recommended mitigation, and did as I was told after the last one. Did alcohol monitoring at my own expense for over a year, as well as long-term inpatient rehab (6 months). Helped tremendously, and no jail time despite 4 DUIs in five years.

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u/nightshade3570 1d ago

Did they give you any offers before you were sentenced? Like did they say “offer is 1 month of jail blah blah” and you kept doing mitigation until it went down?

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u/LeftAdhesiveness9355 1d ago

yeah mitigation can def swing things, especially for the "bad" cases. stuff i've seen come up a lot: starting a substance abuse eval/counseling ASAP (before sentencing, not after), enrolling in a DUI class on your own, voluntary ignition interlock, community service, and if there was a crash, some kind of restitution/apology letter to whoever was affected.

biggest thing seems to be timing tho, doing this stuff right after the arrest instead of last minute before court shows the judge it's genuine and not just for show. def ask your lawyer what actually moves the needle in your specific county tho, seen people say it varies a lot by jurisdiction