When facing a criminal case arising from a roadway collision, your reckless driving or DUI case should be handled by a law firm staffed by top-rated DUI attorneys. This article will alert you to the anticipated stressful and potentially life-changing events that may be unfolding for an accused citizen in a serious injury crash in which others suffered serious bodily injury.<\/p>\n
Some misdemeanor traffic crimes are “categorized” by GA laws to be such serious crimes with the potential to injure or kill that these serious misdemeanors can become a “predicate driving offense”<\/em> that supports a related felony conviction. Causing serious injury to another while drunk or driving recklessly (or both) is all that is needed to enable a jury to then find that you are not only guilty of one of those crimes, but also for the related felony consequence of one or both of those dangerous driving acts.<\/p>\n Multiple victims (in Georgia) means that the DUI prosecutor can ask the court to stack<\/em> punishments for each, end-to-end, which is called consecutive<\/em> sentences. In one of the author’s GA SIBV cases, there were ten (10) seriously injured people, which meant up to 150 years of potential jail time.<\/p>\n