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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She blew 0.22. It was not some 'two glasses of wine' type thing where she blew a 0.09.

What money? She's not going to plead guilty so she needs a lawyer. The weird thing is that [b]she wasn't driving when they picked her up. She was in the car but not operating it[/b]. And they didn't arrest her - there was no bail. I think they gave her a ticket or something like that. So it is worth paying for an attorney, in my opinion.[/quote]

HOw is it possible she got a DUI then? Don't you need to be "driving" for it? Otherwise, I didn't know being drunk per se was illegal (without any disturbance).[/quote]

You can get a DUI for just sitting in the driver's seat while drunk, especially if the key is in the ignition. Basically, it's if the officer can reasonably determine you were about to operate a vehicle, they can stop you before that happens.

It's a weak defense here, though. OP knows fully well her sister would have driven if she'd not been pulled over, and the sister should consider herself lucky that she wasn't arrested.[/quote]

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