NC Inmate Search Driving Drunk in America DUI Lawyers Needed
1apublicrecords.com Some states in the US now have two statutory offenses relating to DUI charges. The first is the traditional offense, variously called driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), driving while intoxicated or impaired (DWI) or operating while intoxicated or impaired (OWI). The second and more recent offence is the so-called illegal (per se) offense of driving with a blood-alcohol concentration (BAC) of 0.08% (previously 0.10%) or higher (which remains the highest allowed level of blood-alcohol in the world). The first offense requires proof of intoxication, although evidence of BAC is admissible in a court of law as rebuttably presumptive evidence of that intoxication; the second requires only proof of BAC at the time of being in physical control of a motor vehicle. An accused citizen may be convicted of both offenses, but may only be punished for one of the two.