{"id":4992,"date":"2014-04-11T23:53:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T23:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ventura-dui-new.flywheelsites.com\/?page_id=4992"},"modified":"2022-12-04T21:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T05:46:23","slug":"penalties-duis-injury-death","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/dui\/serious-dui\/penalties-duis-injury-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Penalties for DUIs Involving Injury or Death"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"4992\" class=\"elementor elementor-4992\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-3043808e elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"3043808e\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1b37d576\" data-id=\"1b37d576\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-253710c4 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"253710c4\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 25-04-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<h2><strong>FELONY DUI<\/strong><\/h2><div><p>Under California Vehicle Code Section 23153, you may be charged with a felony\u00a0DUI if you cause bodily injury to another while you are driving under the influence (DUI). \u00a0You may be charged with a felony if you injured someone while you were driving under the influence; even if the injured person was in your car.\u00a0 If the injuries were very serious, you could be sentenced to state prison for three or more years.<\/p><p>You may also be charged with felony DUI if you have been convicted of felony DUI within the last ten years or if you have been convicted of a misdemeanor DUI three previous times in the last ten years.\u00a0 Once you have been convicted of felony <a href=\"\/dui\/basics\/\">DUI<\/a>, every new DUI charge for the next ten years will be charged as a felony.<\/p><p>If you are facing felony DUI charges, you need an\u00a0<a title=\"Strongest Defense\" href=\"\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">experienced DUI attorney<\/a>\u00a0to assist you.<\/p><p><a href=\"\/dui\/first-time\/misdemeanor-vs-felony-dui\/\"><strong>MISDEMEANOR DUI<\/strong><\/a><\/p><p>If no one was injured by your driving, you will be charged with misdemeanor DUI under California Vehicle Code Section 23152 for the first three offenses within ten years. The <a href=\"\/dui\/first-time\/penalties-overview\/\">minimum penalties increase with each additional DUI offense<\/a>. Click here to see a list of\u00a0<a title=\"Ventura County DUI Penalties\" href=\"\/dui\/first-time\/penalties-pay-stay\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ventura County Penalties for DUI convictions<\/a>.<\/p><p><strong>IS IT TIME FOR TREATMENT?<\/strong><\/p><p>If you think that your drinking has caused you and your family too many problems lately, give\u00a0<a title=\"Strongest Defense\" href=\"\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Strongest Defense<\/a>\u00a0a call. We have experience in helping people find treatment programs. Treatment can start with a trip to your\u00a0neighborhood AA meeting\u00a0or to the hospital for severe alcohol poisoning and withdraw treatment. If you think that you have had enough, then we would like to help you on your road to recovery.<\/p><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FELONY DUI Under California Vehicle Code Section 23153, you may be charged with a felony\u00a0DUI if you cause bodily injury to another while you are driving under the influence (DUI). \u00a0You may be charged with a felony if you injured someone while you were driving under the influence; even if the injured person was in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":6273,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4992"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9925,"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4992\/revisions\/9925"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strongestdefense.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}