Chicago DUI attorney provides an update on a DUI with beltway connections

This Chicago DUI attorney has posted here and here about DUI's with beltway connections.  An Indiana Senator’s wife is guilty of a DUI.

June 2, Indianapolis, IN

Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar’s wife got a 30-day suspended sentence, was fined $250 and faces driving restrictions for a year after pleading guilty to a November drunken-driving incident.

A charge of hitting a parked car and leaving the scene was dropped Friday, according to Fairfax County court records.

A breath test taken about three hours after she was stopped registered a score of 0.11 percent alcohol content. The legal limit is 0.08 percent.

Fairfax County police spokesman Bud Walker said three hours is not an unusual amount of time between a stop and when a breath test is administered. Walker said a person’s score could go up or down in three hours, depending on various factors including how recently alcohol had been ingested before the arrest.

Lugar would have faced automatic jail time if her reading had been 0.15 percent or higher.

Instead, she received a suspended sentence and a $250 fine.

Some are definitely going to believe she was shown a little professional courtesy.