Posts by Steve Sleeper

Will I Have a Criminal Court Appearance in The First Month After a DUI Arrest?A person will usually have an initial criminal court appearance within the first month of a DUI arrest. During this court hearing, the defendant will enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. If they plead guilty, then the judge will…

Generally, a prosecutor will not offer a plea deal until right before trial, sometimes a day or two before trial. They’re dealing with 50 to 100 plus cases per week, and you can’t get on their radar until you’re a week out. Usually. I won’t call a prosecutor any more than two weeks out because…

Probably Not The state of Mississippi, most likely not meet with anybody within the first 30 days of your arrest. First appearance You will likely have your initial appearance. If you don’t have your initial appearance in that first 30 days, it will be at some time period afterwards. But that should be the only…

The biggest mistake is they don’t do anything. They don’t hire an attorney to consult with them and request a discovery file. And quite often they let it run right up until about a week before the trial date, and scramble to get an attorney because they’re going to lose their license. If you hire…

Everything’s Important Everything you can remember is important. I cannot stress how important it is to be completely honest, tell the good, the bad and the ugly. We need to know the facts on the front end. If we know there’s a bad fact out there, that we can take steps to address that and…

It Depends It depends on what kind of license you have in Mississippi. If you have just a regular driver’s license, you lose your license for 90 days through an administrative suspension. Then they send a letter to the address on your driver’s license, and you have 10 days from the date of that letter…

The officer either pulls you over for what’s usually a minor traffic infraction. As the officer approaches the vehicle, you will roll down the window and he’ll ask for your license, your registration and proof of insurance, and you provide those documents. The officer will almost always say they smell the odor of intoxicating beverage…

DUI First Assuming someone has a regular driver’s license, the penalty for a DUI first offense in Mississippi carries 48 hours in jail and a fine of $250 up to $1,000. And it also results in a suspension of your driver’s license for 120 days. The statutes are very clear that you cannot reduce the…

The very first thing I’m going to do is request your discovery. We are entitled to certain evidence and that includes video and audio recordings and reports, whether written by a police officer, the lab, or a witness statement. You are 100% entitled to that. And we’re going to review everything before we step foot…

The most common thing is, refuse the breathalyzer. There’s no record of any blood alcohol content. Here we say, heck no, don’t blow up. The absolute worst thing you can do is blow a 0.08., because at that point, once you blow 0.08 or greater, then we have to go and do a couple of…