Required treatment and therapy hours for alcohol-related offenses, generally a minimum of 12 weeks of classes plus an additional 12 to 14 weeks of therapy.
“okay let's look at the two most common types of cases that have therapy involved so duis and domestic violence cases dui cases you're going to have to go if you are convicted or take a plea for anything that is an alcohol related offense if it's the dui if it's a dwai even if it's what we call a wet reckless if you have any of those please you have to do alcohol treatment and therapy on the other hand if you have a domestic violence charge and you have a plea of some kind or you have a deferred sentence you're going to have to do domestic violence classes now in both of these cases the way that they're set up especially in el paso county is before you're sentenced so you take a plea agreement in front of the judge you enter your plea of guilty but then before your sentence on a dui you have to go through an evaluation”
“now the amount of those therapy hours or the number of those therapy hours that you're going to have to do depends on number one your bac number two the facts of the case and number three your answers with probation okay so what you are asking is how do you kind of get a leg up and how do you look better towards the courts you can actually take those classes early especially if you're working with an attorney we at our law firm have a number of different people that we refer our clients out to to get started early just to number one get in there while you can especially if you still have your license and you can still drive around getting that stuff done early is really important but number two it really shows the da and the judge that you are being proactive”
“depending on what level you're put in it will be for a certain number of weeks the minimum that we see is usually 12 weeks on everything but that's for alcohol classes it's 12 weeks of classes and then an additional 12 to 14 weeks of therapy so just be prepared i tell most people this is going to take at least a year maybe more of your life to get through this”
“you can actually take those classes early especially if you're working with an attorney we at our law firm have a number of different people that we refer our clients out to to get started early just to number one get in there while you can especially if you still have your license and you can still drive around getting that stuff done early is really important but number two it really shows the da and the judge that you are being proactive”