{"id":2278,"date":"2012-12-04T07:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-04T07:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/dui-arrest-crime-california\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:23","slug":"dui-arrest-crime-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/dui-arrest-crime-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Is DUI Arrest a Crime in California?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chris-3-copy-square.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1984\" title=\"Chris-3 copy square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.flockoflegals.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Chris-3-copy-square-287x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Guest Post By: Christopher J McCann\u00a0an Orange County criminal defense DUI lawyer<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discover if DUI Arrest is a Crime in California<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Usually, in California, a first-time DUI is charged as a misdemeanor, not as a crime. As long as there are no mitigating or aggravating factors, you will be charged with misdemeanor called a &#8220;simple DUI&#8221;, especially when you are facing the first three DUI cases. However, there are three cases when a simple DUI in California is charged as a felony.<\/p>\n<p>1. Your drunk driving causes an injury or the death of other people. When another person undergoes injury or death either because you&#8217;ve driven in a negligent manner, committed a vehicle code violation or drove under influence, California prosecutors might charge you with a felony DUI.<\/p>\n<p>2. You have a prior felony DUI. In case you are arrested in California for DUI and you already had a felony DUI, you might be charged with crime.<\/p>\n<p>3. You have multiple convictions over a 10-years period. In the state of California, driving under influence is considered a &#8220;priorable&#8221; offense. These priorable offenses add up every time you are convicted for a similar offense. Consequently, if you have suffered more than three DUI convictions over the last 10 years, you are more prone to be charged with a crime.<\/p>\n<p>I hope this helps clarify the question to &#8220;Is DUI Arrest a Crime in California&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>About Guest Post Author:\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2>Christopher J. McCann is an\u00a0Orange County criminal defense lawyer. Mr. McCann is also a practicing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjmdefense.com\/la-palma-dui-lawyer-ca\">La Palma DUI Lawyer CA<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cjmdefense.com\/seal-beach-dui-lawyer\">Seal Beach DUI lawyer<\/a>\u00a0at the law offices of Christopher J. McCann who\u00a0was recently awarded his 6th\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.prweb.com\/releases\/2012\/9\/prweb9873962.htm\">SuperLawyers<\/a>\u00a0Magazine \u201cRising Star\u201d award. You can follow Chris tweets at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/cjm_law_firm\">@cjm_law_firm<\/a>\u00a0or posts at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangecountyduilawyersblog.com\/\">Orange County DUI Lawyers Blog<\/a><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest Post By: Christopher J McCann\u00a0an Orange County criminal defense DUI lawyer Discover if DUI Arrest is a Crime in California Usually, in California, a first-time DUI is charged as a misdemeanor, not as a crime. As long as there are no mitigating or aggravating factors, you will be charged with misdemeanor called a &#8220;simple&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-dui-law-blog","category-california-traffic-ticket-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5512,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2278\/revisions\/5512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}