How To Cleanup Your DWI Record
A Driving While Intoxicated (DWI) conviction on your driving and criminal records can cause a many problems in your life. Your DWI record can be seen by both present and future employers, and can seriously harm your career.
Additionally, the embarrassment of a DWI record can be devastating emotionally to your family and you.
The damaging consequences of a DWI conviction required that you find an experienced and knowledgeable attorney specializing in DWI and drunk driving cases. Many people have been successful in having their DWI record removed permanently with the assistance of a good attorney.
In an instant you can be pulled over if it is suspected you are driving while intoxicated. Further, you can be arrested and charged with DWI. The stopping officer will perform a field sobriety test to determine your blood alcohol content, if DWI is suspected.
If you are charged, a DWI record is automatically placed in your file with the court in that jurisdiction. Suspicion of DWI doesn't even have to be the reason an officer pulls you over.
If you are stopped by an officer for speeding, reckless driving, or any other moving violation and you appear to be under the influence, you may be arrested for DWI.
Expungement is a legal term for the process for removing a criminal arrest from a criminal record. If arrested for DWI, try to have your DWI arrest record expunged from the books. This keeps parties such as employers from seeing your past mistakes.
To expunge your DWI record, send a request to seal all the documents relating to your DWI arrest. On the other hand, you can request that all of your related arrest documents be sent to you, so that the court has no further record of it.
Different laws and legal interpretations apply to expunging your DWI record. Any arrest record not resulting in a guilty verdict in a court of law can be expunged (in most jurisdictions,). Other parts of the country have laws that state that you can get any record expunged where the guilty defendant only received supervision as a sentence.
Of course there are jurisdictions in which the courts do not allow the expungement of any DWI records, regardless if you are guilty or not. An experienced DWI attorney will determine if state laws allow your DWI record to be expunged.
Your attorney will also help in your defense in a courtroom and determine the feasibility of expungement before any sort of plea agreement is agreed to.
If you plead guilty, it may well adversely affect the future probability of getting the DWI record expunged and removed from the court records.
This article is ©2006 by Doug Smith, who provides many free and valuable articles on DWI Arrests. Learn more about DWI arrests, DWI attorneys, your DWI rights, the dangers of drinking and driving, and much more DWI information at http://DWI.FindCarsForHire.com. This article may be freely reprinted as long as this copyright notice remains intact, the article is unchanged, and all hyperlinks remain active and clickable.
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