The court hearing at which a defendant is formally read the charges and enters a plea.
“this gets going the real answer is it varies um so usually what happens is if you get a dui especially if you have a blood test the first time that you're going into court number one if you don't have an attorney they're gonna put you in a place at least in colorado springs um called the first appearance center or the fac um if you go to the first appearance center you are not going to see a judge you may not even see a real district attorney um they often have interns working there which isn't a bad thing people got to learn somehow but you're not going to really get anywhere um if you hire our lr firm or another law firm what we do is we get in there and we say we don't want you to waste our clients time take us out of that first appearance center so that we can actually get in front of a judge and get this case moving um so depending on when you hire a law firm that can cause a little bit of a delay um the other things that you need to know are we have pre-trial conferences and if we don't have the blood results yet because the colorado bureau of investigations is the one that processes them sometimes they get really behind especially around like new year's eve patrick's day yeah um so if they don't have blood results we can't really do anything on the case yet because we want to make sure we know what that bac is so usually you're looking at about one to three pre-trial conferences on a dui then it gets to a point called an arraignment at that time you've got to say okay this is um”
“with the court process i mean once you get to the arraignment you're either going to take a plea of some kind or you're going to set it for a trial and that's really where it's kind of branches off in the criminal case okay okay so um with that with either way once you know the end comes when you're getting your probation what you need to do what kind of um how long your license has gone is there any kind of general what happens or is it case by case you just kind of who your judge might be or you know that kind of thing”
Alexis explains: "with the court process i mean once you get to the arraignment you're either going to take a plea of some kind or you're going to set it for a trial and that's really where it's kind of branches off in the criminal case okay okay so um with that with either way once you know the end comes when you're getting your probation what you need to do what kind of um how long your license has gone is there any kind of general what happens or is it case by case you just kind of who your judge might be or you know that kind of thing"
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my DUI (first time and will only be the one time)
They negotiated with the DA and dropped certain charges and lessened one
Didn't pay a fine only court costs
I got my first DUI
she made sure I got the lowest charge possible
the result was a Wet &Reckless