Posts by Steve Sleeper

Probably the biggest misconception is that you can’t plead a DUI down to some sort of lesser offense. A lot of states offer it to where you can play it down to some kind of traffic violation or something of the sort. In Mississippi, that’s not an option. There is the option for non-adjudication, but…

Closest Precinct In the first 24 hours, you are going to be taken to the local arresting agency and booked in there. Most likely you’ll be taken directly to a detention facility where they will do the booking. In the event, you were taken to a local agencies station, you will then be transferred to…

DUI in Mississippi is defined in a couple of different ways. You have what is known as a common law DUI, which means the officer thinks that you are impaired and operating a motor vehicle on the highways of the state of Mississippi. And that is where a lot of your field sobriety tests and…

Very Common It’s very common that, that someone assumes that they don’t have a chance of winning the case. Unfortunately, and often it’s because the individual feels like they were railroaded from the very beginning. From the moment the officer pulled them over, to having them do the tests and then putting them in the…

Nope Unfortunately in Mississippi, there’s no way to take a DUI to a lesser offense. When you’re talking about a DUI first or second, the law is very specific that it cannot be taken to anything else. No Way There’s no way to take a second and make it a DUI first. There’s no one…

You can certainly try if you have an attorney’s number. Unfortunately, people are arrested at really odd hours of the night, outside of business hours. At the Franks law firm. We have a 24 hour answering service. The answering service takes your phone call and they transcribe it into a text message, which is forwarded…

Very Early Very early is the answer. You are going to end up entering a plea of guilty or not guilty before all the information is available. As far as discovery, often your initial appearances are within days of their initial arrest. Sometimes it’s set out a week or a month. It depends on the…

The Sooner the Better It’s one extreme or the other. Either I’m hired very early on, or late in the process. The sooner I’m hired the better, because there are several things I do. I request discovery. I request an extension of the driver’s license. I’m also requesting freedom of information, act requests from various…

Most Times Usually you will have a criminal court appearance within the first month of the arrest. It’s called your initial appearance. And all that happens there is you walk up and either you enter a plea of guilty or not guilty. Your Plea If you enter a plea guilty, the judge will send it…

Most Times, Yes You should be able to drive for a specific period of time. They give you a piece of paper that says, this is your license for the next 30 days. And they will go ahead and start processing that information to their system. And it should spit out a letter that is…