March 27, 2019
How a DUI conviction negatively impacts your employment
- Records of any incarceration you served as a result of your DUI or other criminal conviction(s)
- Records from the court(s) that tried you for DUI or other criminal charges
- Driving records from the state(s) where you became convicted of DUI or other traffic-related offense(s)
- Records from the state(s) where your driver’s license became suspended or revoked
- The Facebook and other social media posts you and/or your family and friends posted about your arrest and/or conviction
Once the background check reveals all these negative things about you, your chances of obtaining employment plummet. Rightly or wrongly, many employers refuse to hire someone with a criminal conviction on his or her record if they have other applicants whose records are clean.
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2 key factors to consider when facing a DUI charge
2. Do not assume guilt
Contrary to common belief, sobriety testing devices that law enforcement uses in the field are not infallible. They can give false positive and abnormally high blood alcohol content readings when law enforcement does not properly administer or calibrate them. Also, your words and actions at the time of your arrest may be a part of the evidence substantiating your DUI charge. Until you have your day in court, you are innocent. You have the right to call into question the accuracy and reliability of any evidence and sobriety testing equipment as part of your defense.
DUI charges, whether drug or alcohol-related, are nothing to ignore. Everyone makes mistakes. What you do about that mistake is what will ultimately determine the outcome.