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As for the DUI poll - I had two (in my younger years), but never got charged with one. The first time, I was the manager of a restaurant and the beer license was in my name, so I really had to get out of the DUI charge. I hired a lawyer who took the Chief of Police to lunch and got him to agree to not make the arresting officer appear in court if I plead not guilty. He then made sure that the court date was on the officer's day off, as the officer's wife worked nights, and the officer would've had to hire a babysitter for his kids in order to go to court that day, and court was held in a town 20 miles away. I plead not guilty, we went to court, the officer did not appear, and the judge dropped the charges. The lawyer wasn't cheap, but the DUI wouldn't have been cheap either, and I could've lost my job.
The second time, the judge reduced the charge to reckless driving after I attended six weeks of DUI classes. (This seems to happen to here women much more often than men.)
After that, I was older and wiser enough to not drive drunk. I also had a child after the second time and that stopped my partying for the most part.
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