An additional evaluation that may be required, which can lengthen a case.
“Quite frankly, a lot of this depends on whether or not you have to do any kind of additional evaluations like an alcohol evaluation, or PSR, which is a pre sentence investigation. So these cases can draw out pretty lengthy amount of time.”
“as part of that, there's certain requirements, uh, such as an alcohol evaluation. You have to do an alcohol evaluation and comply with all those requirements. The requirements are things like taking an alcohol education courses. That's going to be two hours a week for multiple weeks. And then after that there's alcohol therapy. Um sometimes you have to do a victim impact panel as part of it. There's community service.”