{"id":24570,"date":"2019-07-08T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-tester.blawgcloud.com\/first-offense-oui-penalties\/"},"modified":"2019-07-08T16:36:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-08T16:36:03","slug":"first-offense-oui-penalties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/first-offense-oui-penalties\/","title":{"rendered":"First Offense OUI Penalties Maine \u2013 License Suspension"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been stopped and arrested for Operating Under the Influence of alcohol (OUI\/DUI\/DWI). You posted bail, and now you&#8217;re home. You\u2019re terrified and have no idea where things go from here. All you did was drive your motor vehicle! You cannot believe you got a first offense DUI in Maine. At work everyone asks, \u201cA drunk driving charge? Is this your first OUI?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What were your test results? Blood alcohol level? Breath test? Blood test? Refusal? What are the first offense OUI penalties? If this summons for OUI\/DUI\/DWI is a subsequent offense to other significant driving convictions, we\u2019ll be discussing them in a future blog. But for now, let\u2019s take a minute and talk about the Maine first DUI.<\/p>\n<p>When you are charged with a first offense in Maine, you actually have two cases going on at the same time. I try to get clients to visualize two trains on parallel tracks leaving the station together. On one track you have the court (the judge, the clerks, the DA\u2019s Office), and on the other track you have the Bureau of Motor Vehicles. In most cases, long before the arraignment date for your court case (Plead not guilty!), the Bureau of Motor Vehicles BMV (also commonly known as \u201cDMV\u201d) will send you a Notice of Suspension. This is where we discuss loss of license. If you have not contacted a law firm at this point, you should do so now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.webblawmaine.com\/blog\/first-offense-oui-penalties\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading First Offense OUI Penalties Maine \u2013 License Suspension\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve been stopped and arrested for Operating Under the Influence of alcohol (OUI\/DUI\/DWI). You posted bail, and now you&#8217;re home. You\u2019re terrified and have no idea where things go from here. All you did was drive your motor vehicle! You cannot believe you got a first offense DUI in Maine. At work everyone asks, \u201cA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-defense","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>First Offense OUI Penalties Maine - License Suspension<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Maine first DUI conviction means more jail time, community service, court fines, and driver&#039;s license suspension. 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