Each state has a different set of rules for the number of DUIs a person collects before a judge will finally sentences them to jail time.  Sometimes a judge will issue community service, require them to seek alcohol related treatment or take away their driving privileges with a suspended license. However, none of this seems to matter to the thousands of people who continue to drink and drive while still collecting DUIs all the while knowing that the law is very ‘relaxed’ and ‘workable’ to their advantage

In 2008 11,773 people were killed in alcohol related car crashes throughout the United States.  This represents a 9.7 percent decreased from 2007 in alcohol impaired driving fatalities.  A Tampa DUI lawyer will represent someone who is accused of driving under the influence of alcohol or other illegal substances but cautions there is a limit to the number of times a person with DUIs can stay out of prison.

Keeping their clients out of prison is the goal and so Tampa DUI attorneys may ask the court to install an Ignition Interlock System in their clients car and to set at .04 percent instead of the standard .08 percent so that when their client has been drinking, they cannot drive their vehicle without blowing into the Ignition Interlock System in order to start the engine. The fact that the Interlock System is set  below the standard legal limit shows a judge that the client is willing to try to sober up or, seek alternative transportation if they have been drinking and need alternative transportation.

Tampa criminal lawyers, who also represent people who have been drinking and driving, believe that there are two separate types of DUI cases.  There are people who are pulled over for the first time and perhaps were at a wedding or other family gathering and had a few drinks and then there are people who are continually driving while under the influence of alcohol or other substances such as prescription drugs, marijuana, speed, meth or other dangerous drugs.  The criminal justice system should not treat these two types of DUI offenders the same, however, many see a drunk driver as a drunk driver no matter if it’s their first offense or their fourth offense.