DUI License Suspensions for Child Endangerment

Wednesday, 01 August 2007

One arrest, multiple DUI charges?  Generally speaking when you are arrested and then plea or are convicted of DUI, your license is suspended.  For  first DUI conviction in five years measured from date of arrest, the suspension is effectively four months if you took a breath test with a limited work permit available for Georgia licensees.  A refusal is a one year license suspension with no work permit.  For a second DUI conviction in five years, the license suspension is 3 years but you can get your license back in one year if you install and drive with a breath test device installed on your car for six months.  At the end of 18 months, you can get your license back on a probationary basis with full privileges. For a third DUI conviction in five years, you are declared a habitual violator and lose your license for five years with the availability of a probationary habitual violator license available at the end of two years.   End of the story, not by a long shot.  In Dozier v. Jackson, 282 Ga. App. 264 (Ga. Ct. App. 2006), the Georgia Court of Appeals held that a mother arrested for DUI with children in the car gets a DUI conviction for the initial DUI offense and one for each child in the car.   As a result, one dui arrest with children in the car can result in a five year license suspension resulting in a felony conviction if caught driving again.   Parents beware!

 

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