Can I get a Limited Privilege?

PODCAST – Law Talk with Bill Powers – Limited Driving Privileges for DWI charges in North Carolina 

That’s actually a pretty common question DWI lawyers in Charlotte get. The honest answer isn’t always reassuring.

It depends.

There are many reasons why you may need driving privileges, and it can be difficult to get them given the NCDMV laws are actually pretty complicated.

Am I eligible for a Limited Privilege?

If your license has been revoked or suspended because of a traffic violation or DWI (or any other reason), getting Limited Privilege might help make sure that all goes according to plan in terms taking care of responsibilities such as work deadlines; school schedules for children who rely heavily upon vehicles transportation between home and school; grocery shopping trips, etc.

What is a limited driving privilege?

A limited driving privilege is a document that allows someone to drive in specific circumstances, such as to and from work or for medical appointments. It is not a license and does not allow the person to drive anywhere they want.

While some people may refer to them as a “Hardship License” or “Work Privilege” or “Paper License,” in North Carolina, they’re technically referred to as a Limited Privilege.  

If you are considering applying for a limited driving privilege, it is important to understand the law and how it applies to your situation. It is also important to have the paperwork done correctly, or it may not be accepted by the DMV.

What happens if I refused to blow?

It’s important to understand, a driver’s license in North Carolina is a privilege, not a right – Bill Powers 

The North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles (NCDMV) has a number of rules and regulations in place that govern who is eligible for driving privileges and under what circumstances.

There are several different types of Limited Driving Privileges in North Carolina.

For example, for just for DWI charges, there are privileges for:

• LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE PRETRIAL REVOCATION (IMPLIED-CONSENT OFFENSE) – AOC-CVR-10
• LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE INDEFINITE PRETRIAL REVOCATION (IMPLIED-CONSENT OFFENSE) – AOC-CVR-11
• LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE IMPAIRED DRIVING OR OPEN CONTAINER OR UNDERAGE ALCOHOL VIOLATION (N.C. CONVICTIONS ONLY) – AOC-CR-312
• LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE IMPAIRED DRIVING (OUT-OF-STATE OR FEDERAL – AOC-CR-352
• LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE WILLFUL REFUSAL-AOC-CR-313
• INTERLOCK LIMITED DRIVING PRIVILEGE IMPAIRED DRIVING (N.C. CONVICTIONS ONLY)-AOC-CR-340

Can I handle DWI charges by myself?

Yes, but it’s not recommended.

The process is complicated and without an understanding of the law, you could make things worse.

A limited privilege can help reduce some of the consequences of a DWI conviction, but it’s important to have the paperwork done correctly.

Of course, even being charged with DWI can result in a Civil Revocation.  In that instance, a Pretrial Limited Privilege may be appropriate.  Each case, like each person accused of impaired driving, is unique.

If you have any questions, we think it’s best to talk to an attorney.

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TXT Transcript of Law Talk with Bill Powers – March 10, 2022

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[Unknown]: we attach the documents when we apply for a limited driving privilege we attach a

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[Unknown]: supreme court says it’s not a punishment it’s an administrative revocation i that’s

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[Unknown]: you know and and there’s there are limitations to it so you’ll be able to drive

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[Unknown]: that’s where her car was parked and that’s that’s the a violation you have to be

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[Unknown]: it’s just a main page not even petition but the main page of privilege most

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[Unknown]: all day long is is go through that getting your address and your name and driver’s

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[Unknown]: are just like you at a driver’s license because there’s no picture so they gotta

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[Unknown]: make sure to you yeah and it’s funny so that’s a great point because i will ask

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[Unknown]: there’s a reason we’re asking so you say demographic information it’s it’s date of

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[Unknown]: yeah yeah and e and then and then we have to say we’re gonna need your social cause

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[Unknown]: we have to pull your driving record we need to know everything about you

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[Unknown]: unfortunately because the dmv is requiring this and the judge want to see it when

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[Unknown]: he signs it so and frankly that’s something i think now we’re talking i think of

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[Unknown]: all these other podcasts we can be doing but obtaining a copy of your abstract

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[Unknown]: online that’s db it asks for it and they charge what ten million dollars right and

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[Unknown]: so you can do that yourself but guess what they want to know they want to know your

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[Unknown]: name your driver’s life number and your social car number date birth so we keep

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[Unknown]: that information confidential we have a crm tool but we keep that information

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[Unknown]: confidential and i don’t mind the person pos it as long as it’s an official one

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[Unknown]: from nc department of transportation not one of these other companies out there

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[Unknown]: let’s talk about some of the forms i know we’ve got one online if you google us

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[Unknown]: wow i don’t know which publication i think this is in our guide book that’s on the

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[Unknown]: it’s an insurance form don’t get to nitty gritty but so the do one two three is

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[Unknown]: just a form that your insurance company can usually it’s very simple to shoot over

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[Unknown]: those four tag renewals and different things at the dmv so it’s not an indicator to

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[Unknown]: it’s accepted by the judge right yeah i mean i mean it’s a it’s not in in fact i’ve

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[Unknown]: heard recently that like geco and some of the bigger companies there’s actually

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[Unknown]: like a place on your online policy where you can request it and they’ll send it

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[Unknown]: right over to you so it it’s becoming easier i think right you’ve worked for us for

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[Unknown]: a long time now that things are more automated and decentralized online you can get

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[Unknown]: you know understand that it’s different than a deck page like why can a dec

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[Unknown]: just send me my interest card doesn’t mean right and so what they want to show is

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[Unknown]: and what’s the next thing that you so then the next thing you’re talking about is

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[Unknown]: the standard hour so they’ll need a work letter on letter head if they’re driving

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[Unknown]: the standard hours have always been six a m to eight p m monday through friday on

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[Unknown]: there so there’s no weekend hours there’s no um night time driving and as long as

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[Unknown]: you are not going to work before six am you’re usually pretty good but there are a

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[Unknown]: lot of people who that doesn’t for them right

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[Unknown]: yeah i use i use i try to explain people take a deep as soon as they hear standard

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[Unknown]: hours like wait a minute i work i work at lands crackers south boulevard or i work

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[Unknown]: whatever there are all kinds of exception this y’all but there are ways within the

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[Unknown]: proof that you can be able to try

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[Unknown]: now you don’t want to be driving at two am home from a bar un limited driving

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[Unknown]: privilege when it’s supposed to be to get you back and forth to work or to get your

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[Unknown]: kids to school or even get the grocery store we even had judges accept church stuff

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[Unknown]: so that people that are like really deep into their faith and and sunday morning’s

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[Unknown]: a big deal to them they have hours on sunday morning to drive i mean there’s a lot

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[Unknown]: of understanding but we have to have everything all the ducks have to be in a root

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[Unknown]: for right and it gets complicated well what if i’m self employed well then then

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[Unknown]: or what if i work hourly i mean these are things you work with them on a daily

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[Unknown]: basis as long as we have a documentation and we submit to a court hey this person

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[Unknown]: is self employed this is their projected schedule there are ways that we’re able to

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[Unknown]: it’s a specific law but i think the judges really understand that we’re trying to

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[Unknown]: get people

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[Unknown]: back and forth for household maintenance purposes and really a limited privilege is

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[Unknown]: not supposed to be a punishment

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[Unknown]: it’s supposed to be

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[Unknown]: basically a wake up call is my understanding of it so we also do something

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[Unknown]: with an a a day but we keep it in house but it basically where we

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[Unknown]: that your prior record is what you say it is and no one was killed in a wreck and

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[Unknown]: things like that partially that’s because some jurisdictions

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[Unknown]: look at the face of the document and then there are other jurisdictions where i

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[Unknown]: think a union county specifically where

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[Unknown]: sometimes we have to say listen we know it’s a hassle but you’re going to need to

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[Unknown]: come to the court the judge is going to want to ask you some questions you got to

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[Unknown]: put your left hand to by and raise your right hand and we want you to be prepared

381
00:26:39,680 –> 00:26:43,440
[Unknown]: for what those issues are and otherwise confirmed that there are other you’ not

382
00:26:43,440 –> 00:26:47,760
[Unknown]: revoked to another state and nothing like that confirming that everything that

383
00:26:47,760 –> 00:26:51,280
[Unknown]: you’ve told us and everything provided to us is exactly what it is and that there’s

384
00:26:50,820 –> 00:26:51,820
[Unknown]: nothing

385
00:26:52,480 –> 00:26:56,880
[Unknown]: you know that don’t know on there or that is incorrect on there and then we prep a

386
00:26:56,960 –> 00:27:00,640
[Unknown]: petition for a pre trial limit driving privilege and then the limit improvement

387
00:27:00,420 –> 00:27:01,420
[Unknown]: itself

388
00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:06,080
[Unknown]: just in case anyone wants to take a look at it one of the other things this is a

389
00:27:06,160 –> 00:27:11,200
[Unknown]: big ticket item that i try to explain phil this is not a punishment this is

390
00:27:11,520 –> 00:27:16,480
[Unknown]: required under the statute in order to obtain it but that is the is the alcohol

391
00:27:16,560 –> 00:27:22,320
[Unknown]: assessment and um the recommended treatment that you need to start and we know that

392
00:27:22,560 –> 00:27:26,080
[Unknown]: there are only you’ve only got ten days to get these things together and sometimes

393
00:27:26,320 –> 00:27:30,240
[Unknown]: we’re talking to you on day six so we know and we have recommendations for lots of

394
00:27:30,320 –> 00:27:34,240
[Unknown]: people around charlotte that that will get that started for you pretty quickly i

395
00:27:34,320 –> 00:27:38,480
[Unknown]: think especially especially since covid they’ve been letting them get those in

396
00:27:38,640 –> 00:27:43,040
[Unknown]: online and stuff which i don’t know how long that will last but it’s been actually

397
00:27:43,280 –> 00:27:46,320
[Unknown]: helpful for people because they can get that assessment in and i’ve seen more

398
00:27:46,480 –> 00:27:51,760
[Unknown]: people actually do and comply with their their treatment since that so um that is

399
00:27:51,920 –> 00:27:56,000
[Unknown]: where you will meet with somebody who’s license therapist is what they call them

400
00:27:56,960 –> 00:27:58,720
[Unknown]: they will assess your level of

401
00:28:00,320 –> 00:28:04,720
[Unknown]: for some group therapy sessions and that is important because you’ll need it again

402
00:28:04,880 –> 00:28:07,360
[Unknown]: at the end it’s a mitigating or a positive factor right

403
00:28:08,560 –> 00:28:11,360
[Unknown]: yeah and a couple things about this first we’re not saying that you have a problem

404
00:28:11,440 –> 00:28:16,160
[Unknown]: tracking mean it’s basically holding a mirror up secondly the people that give the

405
00:28:16,240 –> 00:28:18,720
[Unknown]: assessments not all of them offer

406
00:28:20,080 –> 00:28:22,880
[Unknown]: uh a therapy i think use a term or treatment

407
00:28:24,080 –> 00:28:28,240
[Unknown]: there is actually there are approved organizations by the state of north carolina

408
00:28:28,320 –> 00:28:33,920
[Unknown]: that can give they’re called license assessing agencies thereafter either they can

409
00:28:34,080 –> 00:28:38,240
[Unknown]: have people that help do the training alcohol awareness program one of the more

410
00:28:38,240 –> 00:28:42,320
[Unknown]: common ones called a deets which is called alcohol drug education traffic school

411
00:28:42,480 –> 00:28:46,800
[Unknown]: depending there are a bunch of different factors what you blue or what your blood

412
00:28:46,880 –> 00:28:48,240
[Unknown]: alcohol content was your bac

413
00:28:50,640 –> 00:28:54,560
[Unknown]: you know there’s an awareness programs twenty hours or forty hour programs or

414
00:28:54,620 –> 00:28:55,620
[Unknown]: outpatient in

415
00:28:56,560 –> 00:29:01,600
[Unknown]: sixteen right right right so here are the keys you need to know first it’s

416
00:29:01,680 –> 00:29:06,080
[Unknown]: confidential okay it’s these materials are protected we don’t even

417
00:29:08,000 –> 00:29:13,920
[Unknown]: really get the analysis of where they came from it’s relatively quick it’s not a

418
00:29:13,920 –> 00:29:16,400
[Unknown]: bank buster the companies charge a hundred dollars

419
00:29:17,760 –> 00:29:20,400
[Unknown]: most of them want a copy actually i think statute now

420
00:29:21,520 –> 00:29:24,800
[Unknown]: their endpin of the statute is they have to have a copy of your driving record

421
00:29:26,000 –> 00:29:29,440
[Unknown]: and if you give that to us or you get it before you can you know don’t have to pay

422
00:29:29,520 –> 00:29:30,880
[Unknown]: them the extra ten bucks to get it again

423
00:29:32,400 –> 00:29:35,200
[Unknown]: and covid actually this is one of the benefits

424
00:29:37,120 –> 00:29:40,160
[Unknown]: you can do them online now to get the assessment and

425
00:29:41,200 –> 00:29:45,440
[Unknown]: you are required in order to obtain a limited driving privilege to go ahead and

426
00:29:45,600 –> 00:29:50,000
[Unknown]: start what the recommendations are the second thing is is that the assessments only

427
00:29:50,160 –> 00:29:55,520
[Unknown]: last for six months so if you sit on it you don’t your treatment you’re going pay a

428
00:29:55,520 –> 00:29:57,200
[Unknown]: hundred bucks again have to go through it all again

429
00:29:58,560 –> 00:30:02,800
[Unknown]: and so there are some timing kind of things we encourage people to go ahead and get

430
00:30:02,880 –> 00:30:07,280
[Unknown]: it and can kill you it’s confidential no one’s gonna it’s not going to be a matter

431
00:30:07,600 –> 00:30:12,400
[Unknown]: public record for you obtaining this i personally think that the hipaa laws are

432
00:30:12,480 –> 00:30:16,880
[Unknown]: applicable as far as your individual nuances and your answers and i think the

433
00:30:16,960 –> 00:30:21,040
[Unknown]: legislature as i understand the law is encouraging people to hold a mirror up and

434
00:30:21,040 –> 00:30:24,080
[Unknown]: say hey where am i with you it’s not a hard time it’s good for you in the in the

435
00:30:24,160 –> 00:30:27,360
[Unknown]: end i mean it ultimately looks like you’re taking that that first step in that

436
00:30:26,940 –> 00:30:27,940
[Unknown]: ability to drive as you did before you got this dwi barring that you refused or

437
00:30:27,440 –> 00:30:30,960
[Unknown]: responsibility and i think that’s positive for anybody who does that right and

438
00:30:31,040 –> 00:30:35,600
[Unknown]: under the law if you were convicted it is a statutory mitigate factor that has to

439
00:30:35,680 –> 00:30:38,880
[Unknown]: be considered by the court the obtain the alcohol assessment and following through

440
00:30:39,120 –> 00:30:42,640
[Unknown]: the recommended treatment some people misunderstand thinking just the assessment

441
00:30:42,880 –> 00:30:46,640
[Unknown]: itself is enough actually you have to have a completion of that in order for it to

442
00:30:46,260 –> 00:30:47,260
[Unknown]: be

443
00:30:48,000 –> 00:30:52,640
[Unknown]: i’m in a game factor and that’s my my reading it along long anyway um

444
00:30:54,560 –> 00:30:57,440
[Unknown]: then there’s uh with the limited driving privilege once you get the assessment so

445
00:30:57,440 –> 00:31:01,360
[Unknown]: we got dl one two three you got the alcohol assessment and a documentation of an

446
00:31:01,360 –> 00:31:06,240
[Unknown]: agency melissa’s got i think they’re forty or something in charlotte’ yeah i think

447
00:31:06,240 –> 00:31:09,600
[Unknown]: we have a sheet right now with twenty just so as not to overwhelm and then we have

448
00:31:09,680 –> 00:31:12,160
[Unknown]: some outer county ones and then um you know we have

449
00:31:13,280 –> 00:31:17,360
[Unknown]: as you’ve stated earlier you’ve been doing this for thirty years so we have a few

450
00:31:17,520 –> 00:31:22,000
[Unknown]: that we communicate with pretty easily there’s a relationship there those places

451
00:31:22,080 –> 00:31:25,760
[Unknown]: tend to keep the same folks around and we tend to keep the same folks around so

452
00:31:25,500 –> 00:31:26,500
[Unknown]: it’s been

453
00:31:27,440 –> 00:31:31,520
[Unknown]: it’s not a hard process for us but it is hard for someone to understand so that’s

454
00:31:31,600 –> 00:31:36,480
[Unknown]: why we walk you through it and and then the next um thing we’re gonna need is and

455
00:31:36,640 –> 00:31:41,600
[Unknown]: sometimes we adv advances for the client but if they’ve already retained us it’s a

456
00:31:41,680 –> 00:31:45,200
[Unknown]: filing fee of a hundred dollars and that’s required um to be paid to the clerk of

457
00:31:45,280 –> 00:31:47,120
[Unknown]: court when the attorney files that for you

458
00:31:48,960 –> 00:31:54,320
[Unknown]: a couple things about that we do we do cover it’s quicker for us to do it that way

459
00:31:54,960 –> 00:31:58,720
[Unknown]: and then obviously had to be properly retained we’re not chicken and willing nelly

460
00:31:58,720 –> 00:32:02,000
[Unknown]: do it we do it as we do it as a courtesy as part of the representation and our

461
00:32:02,080 –> 00:32:04,160
[Unknown]: underlying charge we don’t charge extra for that

462
00:32:05,200 –> 00:32:09,840
[Unknown]: and it’s just quicker for us to go pay the company a credit card and say hey

463
00:32:09,920 –> 00:32:14,480
[Unknown]: reimburse us once you become eligible get your regular driver’s license back they

464
00:32:14,560 –> 00:32:19,440
[Unknown]: call that a civil restoration civil yeah restoration of the civil

465
00:32:22,000 –> 00:32:25,200
[Unknown]: there’s another one hundred buck fee and so some people want to wait they don’t

466
00:32:25,200 –> 00:32:26,560
[Unknown]: want to get the assessment which is one hundred bucks

467
00:32:28,080 –> 00:32:32,480
[Unknown]: the driving record which is ten and then a filing fee for your pret and driving

468
00:32:32,480 –> 00:32:36,560
[Unknown]: priv so you are two hundred ten in the hole and some people wait get day thirty

469
00:32:36,720 –> 00:32:41,040
[Unknown]: right you paid hundred bucks at the g again which we will advance it’s just frankly

470
00:32:41,120 –> 00:32:45,280
[Unknown]: quicker uh for us and we kind of take the perspective if you’re trusting us to

471
00:32:45,280 –> 00:32:47,600
[Unknown]: represent of the e you will reimburse us for expenses

472
00:32:49,040 –> 00:32:52,640
[Unknown]: occasionally we get burned on that but not not terribly much so

473
00:32:54,720 –> 00:32:56,720
[Unknown]: and it has changed a lot since

474
00:32:58,080 –> 00:33:01,120
[Unknown]: like i said ninety ninety i don’t know if i had my full thirty years at the time of

475
00:33:01,100 –> 00:33:02,100
[Unknown]: recording but

476
00:33:03,680 –> 00:33:07,840
[Unknown]: it’s been a long time and this is this is developed and change i mean we the law

477
00:33:08,080 –> 00:33:13,440
[Unknown]: regarding ignition in her lock uh just has changed in december was that be december

478
00:33:13,520 –> 00:33:16,400
[Unknown]: first and there’s some new parts of it going in effect in june of this year twenty

479
00:33:16,640 –> 00:33:22,480
[Unknown]: twenty two here are the big picture items one give us a call okay and we’ll walk

480
00:33:22,640 –> 00:33:26,720
[Unknown]: you through it as we said from the beginning it’s complicated we’ll explain it to

481
00:33:26,800 –> 00:33:30,320
[Unknown]: you you really don’t need to know where to put the information

482
00:33:31,440 –> 00:33:35,440
[Unknown]: we will handle that before you what you need to do is we have checklist

483
00:33:36,480 –> 00:33:40,880
[Unknown]: i think you email them a series of documents and then you follow up with them the

484
00:33:40,960 –> 00:33:45,520
[Unknown]: things that bother me as an attorney and i think bother you as the awesomeness of

485
00:33:45,600 –> 00:33:50,800
[Unknown]: awesome legal citizens is way until last minute um it’s less of a problem now

486
00:33:50,960 –> 00:33:54,640
[Unknown]: getting an alcohol assessment and if you live in salisbury it doesn’t really matter

487
00:33:54,720 –> 00:33:57,120
[Unknown]: if you go to absolute ac and they in concord

488
00:33:58,580 –> 00:33:59,580
[Unknown]: and charlotte you’re not

489
00:34:01,600 –> 00:34:04,800
[Unknown]: right but we do keep up with and we’re we’re regularly travel around

490
00:34:05,840 –> 00:34:08,240
[Unknown]: rowan ardal lincoln

491
00:34:09,840 –> 00:34:17,120
[Unknown]: gaston union mac stanley i can’t think of occa i would a couple couple answers yeah

492
00:34:17,520 –> 00:34:21,200
[Unknown]: so basically charlotte’s the whole of the doughnut we go around we don’t go to

493
00:34:21,280 –> 00:34:22,960
[Unknown]: really cabs at all but

494
00:34:24,480 –> 00:34:28,080
[Unknown]: how each jurisdiction likes to do things and they’re filing the different things

495
00:34:28,740 –> 00:34:29,740
[Unknown]: while there’s one law

496
00:34:30,880 –> 00:34:35,200
[Unknown]: sometimes people view it a little bit differently but we’re ra doing that and we’ll

497
00:34:35,200 –> 00:34:38,880
[Unknown]: get you through it okay again you have to be eligible it has you have to have

498
00:34:38,960 –> 00:34:42,480
[Unknown]: documentation there ain’t no wink wink no no going on you got to have your act

499
00:34:42,640 –> 00:34:46,080
[Unknown]: together but this is what you do and you’re good at it and um frankly you’re better

500
00:34:46,240 –> 00:34:47,280
[Unknown]: than me it because i

501
00:34:49,280 –> 00:34:52,720
[Unknown]: you do it every day we review the things and make sure they’re legally appropriate

502
00:34:52,800 –> 00:34:57,120
[Unknown]: before submit to the court but getting it together is is a huge amount of world

503
00:34:57,680 –> 00:35:02,960
[Unknown]: okay so let’s talk about how things actually work you and i you and i mentioned

504
00:35:03,040 –> 00:35:06,960
[Unknown]: that each jurisdiction kind of has their own little preferences and protocols

505
00:35:07,280 –> 00:35:10,880
[Unknown]: nuances right so these are melissa’s top seven

506
00:35:11,920 –> 00:35:16,160
[Unknown]: let’s talk about some real world tips meaning yeah bill i know how you say the law

507
00:35:16,400 –> 00:35:20,720
[Unknown]: says it works but let me tell you reality of how things actually work and again

508
00:35:20,800 –> 00:35:24,560
[Unknown]: within the bounds of law we’re following the law but let’s talk about some you know

509
00:35:24,720 –> 00:35:29,920
[Unknown]: misconceptions maybe that people have number one this is you you think you can do

510
00:35:30,080 –> 00:35:36,400
[Unknown]: this yourself but it’s near impossible right so you can always represent yourself

511
00:35:36,560 –> 00:35:39,440
[Unknown]: in court especially with criminal court matters

512
00:35:40,560 –> 00:35:44,880
[Unknown]: you can give yourself a haircut no law says you have to go to dentist to have and

513
00:35:44,960 –> 00:35:51,200
[Unknown]: pull a bad tooth and i’m not saying that getting limited privilege is exactly the

514
00:35:51,280 –> 00:35:54,800
[Unknown]: same as giving yourself a haircut and the tooth and but the point is

515
00:35:56,560 –> 00:36:01,360
[Unknown]: it it could be right well especially if you do it wrong

516
00:36:02,720 –> 00:36:06,880
[Unknown]: let’s talk about number two that’s related to that so our attorneys have actually

517
00:36:07,120 –> 00:36:12,240
[Unknown]: waited hours in front of a judge to get one privilege for one client sign right and

518
00:36:12,640 –> 00:36:20,080
[Unknown]: and i you know we do this as attorneys i honestly don’t know if you’re pros ah for

519
00:36:20,320 –> 00:36:24,160
[Unknown]: yourself and as a lawyer i don’t know how you get in front of a judge i don’t know

520
00:36:24,720 –> 00:36:27,840
[Unknown]: because i’m thinking of you two sitting there for hours with your badge on with

521
00:36:27,920 –> 00:36:31,840
[Unknown]: your face on it they know you’re there they know you’re an attorney and they’re

522
00:36:31,920 –> 00:36:35,920
[Unknown]: like you’ll wait i mean it’s not they have a whole docket and you are not going to

523
00:36:35,920 –> 00:36:39,360
[Unknown]: be the first thing on the list for sure my guess is you probably submit it with the

524
00:36:39,360 –> 00:36:43,040
[Unknown]: clerk at the judge’s chambers but again which is a time sensitive problem then

525
00:36:43,520 –> 00:36:47,680
[Unknown]: because you only have twenty days of even using it so yeah it it would just it just

526
00:36:47,760 –> 00:36:50,560
[Unknown]: makes for a bear i think right and what if they have questions

527
00:36:51,600 –> 00:36:55,440
[Unknown]: what if you have a judge like in union county that wants to put you on oath and

528
00:36:55,520 –> 00:36:59,920
[Unknown]: then today tell to get the clerk of court to doing that i don’t know i’m just

529
00:37:00,000 –> 00:37:02,880
[Unknown]: saying that even for us and we’re in court every day we sit

530
00:37:04,000 –> 00:37:07,120
[Unknown]: there are times where we try to explain to clients we’re waiting for an order to be

531
00:37:07,200 –> 00:37:11,440
[Unknown]: signed we submitted it there’s in charlotte you go up to the ninth floor we do for

532
00:37:11,600 –> 00:37:15,760
[Unknown]: civil wars we will submit a certain order a criminal order will sit and submit and

533
00:37:15,840 –> 00:37:19,840
[Unknown]: wait for and check the box every day so um it you can do it yourself under law

534
00:37:21,040 –> 00:37:25,600
[Unknown]: but i don’t think necessarily it’s easy and we did some during covid when the

535
00:37:25,600 –> 00:37:28,720
[Unknown]: courtrooms were closed down and we would have to take them up there right drop them

536
00:37:28,800 –> 00:37:32,720
[Unknown]: off at chambers and wait you wait your turn and some sometimes it was a long time

537
00:37:32,800 –> 00:37:36,640
[Unknown]: and people were you know people were you know a little miffed that it took that

538
00:37:36,640 –> 00:37:40,960
[Unknown]: long but these churches are are especially in new york county they’re super busy i

539
00:37:41,040 –> 00:37:45,280
[Unknown]: mean right right not discouraging anybody just the fact of the matter is is that

540
00:37:45,360 –> 00:37:50,800
[Unknown]: covid has changed everything yes okay so number four on awesome melissa’s

541
00:37:52,800 –> 00:37:58,400
[Unknown]: real world tips how things actually work some places namely union county that we

542
00:37:58,400 –> 00:38:01,760
[Unknown]: can could think of at the moment require a client to swear in in front of a judge

543
00:38:02,320 –> 00:38:06,640
[Unknown]: um you’re it’s essentially like being on the stand and you’re at testing that that

544
00:38:06,800 –> 00:38:11,200
[Unknown]: the materials are accurate so that’s a big deal i’ve seen it done up at ede

545
00:38:12,260 –> 00:38:13,260
[Unknown]: i have

546
00:38:15,760 –> 00:38:20,400
[Unknown]: i i i mean i can think of it one or two times in different jurisdictions lincoln

547
00:38:21,360 –> 00:38:26,800
[Unknown]: there could be questions i tend to try to explain things when i’m having a document

548
00:38:26,880 –> 00:38:31,120
[Unknown]: up to the court i’ll say this pre dr limit driving privilege as you’ll note from

549
00:38:31,200 –> 00:38:35,760
[Unknown]: the record and x y and z shows this we’ve also attached a deal one hundred twenty

550
00:38:36,000 –> 00:38:40,000
[Unknown]: three we’ve also attached an alcohol assessment and a letter from the agency that

551
00:38:40,160 –> 00:38:45,120
[Unknown]: shows compliance with it and if you note i tend to note if they’re non standard

552
00:38:45,280 –> 00:38:49,680
[Unknown]: hours so they’re aware of it and then i’ll explain where again an assessment

553
00:38:50,880 –> 00:38:54,080
[Unknown]: and you know some judges want to know that level and we’ll go through it with them

554
00:38:54,160 –> 00:38:57,520
[Unknown]: i tend to give a big picture question say if any other questions you take a look at

555
00:38:57,520 –> 00:39:01,920
[Unknown]: it from it but it’s not just a matter of joining on the spot it’s not because

556
00:39:01,920 –> 00:39:04,080
[Unknown]: they’re going to look at that work letter and they’re going to go to the back and

557
00:39:04,080 –> 00:39:07,680
[Unknown]: then adjust that they make the adjustment on the hours that’s not our call that is

558
00:39:07,760 –> 00:39:14,160
[Unknown]: the judges call so right so the real world how things actually work number five to

559
00:39:14,240 –> 00:39:18,640
[Unknown]: five some privileges require you to print them um um some of the places that we

560
00:39:18,720 –> 00:39:22,320
[Unknown]: take these privileges are required to be printed on front and back i can

561
00:39:23,440 –> 00:39:29,040
[Unknown]: i have taken a privilege driven it all the way i think i want to say salisbury but

562
00:39:29,120 –> 00:39:33,120
[Unknown]: i just can’t remember where i was going and they said you’re you’re gonna bring

563
00:39:33,200 –> 00:39:36,400
[Unknown]: this back they’re gonna want it on front and back and i drove all the way back to

564
00:39:36,480 –> 00:39:40,480
[Unknown]: charlotte right and we had to redo it and they want it printed a certain way that’s

565
00:39:40,560 –> 00:39:44,480
[Unknown]: the way they do it there in that courthouse every courthouse is not the same so the

566
00:39:44,480 –> 00:39:47,520
[Unknown]: safer practice is put on front of me and here all the time and before you get

567
00:39:47,600 –> 00:39:50,160
[Unknown]: phoney go well why don’t you just make a copy of it and right now they want

568
00:39:50,400 –> 00:39:54,400
[Unknown]: original signatures so yeah and they’re not gonna they’re not going to copy it

569
00:39:54,480 –> 00:39:57,280
[Unknown]: there right in front of them they’re absolutely not going to do that so yeah it had

570
00:39:57,840 –> 00:40:02,160
[Unknown]: we had to redo it and we did redo it and that’s on us we i mean that’s that’s what

571
00:40:02,160 –> 00:40:06,240
[Unknown]: we do we have copy keys y’all but it’s just easier to do it on the front and back

572
00:40:06,320 –> 00:40:10,480
[Unknown]: have the original signatures i mean we’re pretty accommodating we’ll get you

573
00:40:10,560 –> 00:40:13,360
[Unknown]: whatever you need anyway you need it to fill it out but you know at the end of the

574
00:40:13,360 –> 00:40:18,400
[Unknown]: day it’s got to be the way that they want it so you know that’s how that works in

575
00:40:18,180 –> 00:40:19,180
[Unknown]: the real

576
00:40:20,000 –> 00:40:26,640
[Unknown]: court world okay so tip number six of how things actually work on melissa’s awesome

577
00:40:26,720 –> 00:40:32,720
[Unknown]: legal system rules number six that um these are always in the discretion of the

578
00:40:32,800 –> 00:40:36,560
[Unknown]: judge no matter what we’re giving them it’s up to them if they’re going to sign it

579
00:40:36,640 –> 00:40:42,240
[Unknown]: and i’m sure you’ve had some that that went unsigned yes and that’s one of those

580
00:40:42,240 –> 00:40:47,360
[Unknown]: ones where it’s always indiscretion of judge until it ain’t meaning if d m v says

581
00:40:47,440 –> 00:40:50,480
[Unknown]: you weren’t eligible and you should not have signed this privilege they write a

582
00:40:50,480 –> 00:40:53,360
[Unknown]: letter back to the judge i think the attorney general’s office because that’s who

583
00:40:53,440 –> 00:40:57,360
[Unknown]: represents deb actually sends a letter back not positive about that but they can

584
00:40:57,440 –> 00:41:01,280
[Unknown]: say not eligible we’re not recognized in a privilege and here here you go here is

585
00:41:01,280 –> 00:41:05,200
[Unknown]: the that brings us to number seven that the dv can reject anything that the if the

586
00:41:05,200 –> 00:41:09,520
[Unknown]: judge passed it through his hands the dmv can still reject it and not that that

587
00:41:10,000 –> 00:41:13,280
[Unknown]: makes people crazy what what are you saying the dean v has authority over the

588
00:41:13,280 –> 00:41:16,720
[Unknown]: judges and i said no that i’m saying they’re two different entities right right so

589
00:41:16,880 –> 00:41:19,120
[Unknown]: the prime example of this is let’s say

590
00:41:20,160 –> 00:41:23,600
[Unknown]: you got to live in a driving privilege and then there was some other basis for

591
00:41:23,680 –> 00:41:25,200
[Unknown]: revocation or suspension this is why

592
00:41:26,320 –> 00:41:28,960
[Unknown]: somew right this is why we do a davids and

593
00:41:30,080 –> 00:41:35,120
[Unknown]: people say well i got i got the driver’s license i gave you another example um i

594
00:41:35,120 –> 00:41:39,120
[Unknown]: had a duplicate plastic license in my driver’s license so i got a license i can

595
00:41:39,200 –> 00:41:43,760
[Unknown]: drive i’m like that license ain’t worth the plastic print it on what matters is

596
00:41:43,840 –> 00:41:45,840
[Unknown]: what’s on a database up there in raleigh

597
00:41:47,440 –> 00:41:51,760
[Unknown]: and so you may have a plastic license in your possession it doesn’t mean it’s valid

598
00:41:51,620 –> 00:41:52,620
[Unknown]: in fact

599
00:41:53,920 –> 00:41:58,720
[Unknown]: if you are subject to a civil revocation for being charged and you don’t turn in

600
00:41:58,800 –> 00:42:02,320
[Unknown]: your license properly then we had this happen in irondale one time where we the

601
00:42:02,400 –> 00:42:07,440
[Unknown]: client actually went to dmv told him i had an address change by the way just don’t

602
00:42:07,440 –> 00:42:10,480
[Unknown]: go in and get a duplicate boy that’s why we need to talk about that it’s another

603
00:42:10,640 –> 00:42:13,920
[Unknown]: one don’t go online i think you can full dmv when you get a silver rep could

604
00:42:14,240 –> 00:42:15,920
[Unknown]: duplicate because bad things happen

605
00:42:16,580 –> 00:42:17,580
[Unknown]: but

606
00:42:18,720 –> 00:42:22,320
[Unknown]: uh they did not turn in their plastic license in time they never got the letter and

607
00:42:22,320 –> 00:42:26,240
[Unknown]: they got an additional i think it was forty five days per a statute and we’re like

608
00:42:26,100 –> 00:42:27,100
[Unknown]: oh so

609
00:42:28,560 –> 00:42:34,080
[Unknown]: the you’re not going to trick them these things are are on computers and i think it

610
00:42:34,240 –> 00:42:36,160
[Unknown]: helps to have a lawyer answer some questions

611
00:42:39,120 –> 00:42:40,480
[Unknown]: okay so um

612
00:42:41,680 –> 00:42:45,440
[Unknown]: you know in closing can i handle dwi charges by myself yes

613
00:42:46,780 –> 00:42:47,780
[Unknown]: um i

614
00:42:48,640 –> 00:42:51,600
[Unknown]: been doing this a lot of years i don’t know if i’d recommend it i mean you you’re

615
00:42:51,600 –> 00:42:54,400
[Unknown]: in the business unless you’re not an attorney but and you’ve worked for other

616
00:42:54,640 –> 00:42:56,720
[Unknown]: lawyers so yeah i didn’t handle

617
00:42:57,840 –> 00:43:02,880
[Unknown]: i i wouldn’t handle the speed tick by myself but ah no i it’s just not recommended

618
00:43:03,280 –> 00:43:07,520
[Unknown]: right and i i know what you’re saying with spenser part of your job on a daily

619
00:43:07,600 –> 00:43:10,400
[Unknown]: basis is trying to fix or correct

620
00:43:11,920 –> 00:43:15,360
[Unknown]: that that that when things are not handled correctly in the first place like

621
00:43:15,440 –> 00:43:19,600
[Unknown]: someone goes in and just i didn’t know it was a big deal i pleaded uh pleaded it to

622
00:43:19,600 –> 00:43:23,360
[Unknown]: a hundred and five and a fifty five in york county and the officer over there in

623
00:43:23,440 –> 00:43:27,680
[Unknown]: tennessee told me i just pay it when no big deal right except he doesn’t know north

624
00:43:27,840 –> 00:43:29,440
[Unknown]: carolina right it is a deal

625
00:43:30,800 –> 00:43:32,400
[Unknown]: and so without an understanding law

626
00:43:33,600 –> 00:43:37,920
[Unknown]: you could make things worse there are some types of cases in north carolina that

627
00:43:38,000 –> 00:43:42,480
[Unknown]: you may qualify for an appointment of counsel a public defender for a lack of

628
00:43:42,560 –> 00:43:47,120
[Unknown]: better term you have to fill on f dave anderson’s ing after otherwise qualified

629
00:43:47,280 –> 00:43:49,680
[Unknown]: there are supposed to be a consideration of whether you could actually get jail

630
00:43:49,840 –> 00:43:54,000
[Unknown]: time based on your prior record so sometimes people assume everyone gets a free

631
00:43:54,160 –> 00:43:57,600
[Unknown]: lawyer or and they’re not well that’s a good point they say that’s not they’re not

632
00:43:57,600 –> 00:44:02,160
[Unknown]: really a free lawyer unless you win your case you can be assigned a fee of bringing

633
00:44:02,320 –> 00:44:07,520
[Unknown]: reimbursed the state for legal fees but we give a free consultation most d w lewis

634
00:44:07,600 –> 00:44:12,160
[Unknown]: and charlotte will give a free consult where we explained some big picture items we

635
00:44:12,320 –> 00:44:16,240
[Unknown]: explained how the process works in my mind it’s different in legal advice because

636
00:44:16,320 –> 00:44:18,320
[Unknown]: legal advice thinks you can rely upon the law

637
00:44:19,760 –> 00:44:24,320
[Unknown]: necessitate a deeper dive getting documentation but we don’t mind calling up and if

638
00:44:24,320 –> 00:44:26,320
[Unknown]: you call us up and ask us quote some questions

639
00:44:27,680 –> 00:44:32,160
[Unknown]: and a limit approach can help reduce some of the consequences if you are convicted

640
00:44:32,320 –> 00:44:35,760
[Unknown]: now this is different remember we’ve been talking to you and i’ve been talking a

641
00:44:35,760 –> 00:44:38,640
[Unknown]: lot about a pre chil limited driving privilege but there’s something called a post

642
00:44:38,720 –> 00:44:42,480
[Unknown]: conviction limited driving privilege and boy it gets real complicated when you

643
00:44:42,480 –> 00:44:45,760
[Unknown]: start talking about willful refusal limited driving privileges and ignition

644
00:44:45,760 –> 00:44:49,360
[Unknown]: interlock and things like that so if you have questions we think it’s a good idea

645
00:44:49,440 –> 00:44:54,960
[Unknown]: to talk to an attorney melissa what again kind of closing thoughts were what i mean

646
00:44:54,960 –> 00:44:58,640
[Unknown]: you’ve been how many years you worked for us now fifteen you been on for fifteen

647
00:44:58,640 –> 00:45:00,240
[Unknown]: years wow and then you worked

648
00:45:01,440 –> 00:45:06,000
[Unknown]: had some kids and um went and worked for a property law firm things like that some

649
00:45:06,080 –> 00:45:10,160
[Unknown]: real estate firms a couple of things those it’s so much better here so it is what

650
00:45:10,240 –> 00:45:13,120
[Unknown]: have you learned in the internet time i mean in dealing with people i mean

651
00:45:15,440 –> 00:45:20,640
[Unknown]: that when they call here they’re scared and they are thinking this is definitely

652
00:45:21,120 –> 00:45:26,160
[Unknown]: the the end of their life and um at the end of the day this is probably the worst

653
00:45:26,240 –> 00:45:32,240
[Unknown]: spot they’ve been in in a long long time and and um to me my job your job chris our

654
00:45:32,400 –> 00:45:36,960
[Unknown]: job is to get them to the other side of that whatever that looks like if that’s if

655
00:45:37,040 –> 00:45:41,280
[Unknown]: they need help then we’re always the first ones to push him in that direction if

656
00:45:41,440 –> 00:45:45,040
[Unknown]: this is just a fluke and something happened we’re we’re gonna help you pick up

657
00:45:45,120 –> 00:45:48,720
[Unknown]: those pieces too but you got to trust us and uh you got to know we do it every

658
00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:55,920
[Unknown]: every day we and and we we do at least try to we’re always going to be honest with

659
00:45:56,000 –> 00:46:00,240
[Unknown]: you about what which way we think we think are going to go we don’t promise results

660
00:46:00,240 –> 00:46:03,600
[Unknown]: we don’t guarantee results i tell people all the time if you say that i’m gonna say

661
00:46:03,680 –> 00:46:05,680
[Unknown]: it’s just not accurate and you misunderstood

662
00:46:07,120 –> 00:46:11,760
[Unknown]: we are weather people we predict the weather based on the indicators we don’t make

663
00:46:11,920 –> 00:46:15,200
[Unknown]: the weather we’re not the decider we don’t wear the black robe and we’re not the

664
00:46:15,280 –> 00:46:19,600
[Unknown]: prosecutors who get to decide whether to go forward with things or not but we do

665
00:46:20,240 –> 00:46:26,000
[Unknown]: talk with them and we do try to personalize the client the longer i’ve been this i

666
00:46:26,160 –> 00:46:28,320
[Unknown]: think the more i realize the importance of

667
00:46:29,540 –> 00:46:30,540
[Unknown]: treating people

668
00:46:31,760 –> 00:46:35,760
[Unknown]: with courtesy and respect not that we didn’t do before but just treating them

669
00:46:36,400 –> 00:46:41,040
[Unknown]: understanding that it’s a scary type of system and and what do you want to call it

670
00:46:41,120 –> 00:46:45,360
[Unknown]: hand holding or that level of attention personalizing that’s half the battle and

671
00:46:45,440 –> 00:46:48,480
[Unknown]: that’s something that i want to complement you we didn’t plan talking about this

672
00:46:48,560 –> 00:46:52,400
[Unknown]: but that’s something you’re really really good with clients we regularly y’all

673
00:46:52,800 –> 00:46:55,920
[Unknown]: people will email me and say you know liss was really really good really patient

674
00:46:56,160 –> 00:46:59,920
[Unknown]: with me or i know it was a bit of a a bug around this day and she when she was

675
00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:04,720
[Unknown]: patient we get it we don’t always see people at their best day so if you have

676
00:47:04,800 –> 00:47:08,240
[Unknown]: questions about your limited driving privilege if you wanna know am i well eligible

677
00:47:08,320 –> 00:47:12,000
[Unknown]: for a hardship license or a paper license or whatever you want to call it or if

678
00:47:12,000 –> 00:47:17,120
[Unknown]: you’ve got arrested or excited for dui or dw or drunk drive in north carolina

679
00:47:17,600 –> 00:47:22,000
[Unknown]: please give us a call telephone number is seven oh four three four two help that’s

680
00:47:22,080 –> 00:47:27,360
[Unknown]: seven oh four three four two four three five seven you can email us at info at

681
00:47:27,760 –> 00:47:33,200
[Unknown]: carolina attorneys dot com that’s info at carolina attorneys dot com and our web

682
00:47:33,280 –> 00:47:37,760
[Unknown]: page for these type of offenses when there’s a lot of different information there’s

683
00:47:37,920 –> 00:47:41,840
[Unknown]: the dwa quick reference guide there’s a guidebook to navigate the legal system in

684
00:47:41,920 –> 00:47:46,560
[Unknown]: different jurisdictions we have one it’s about to go online for each one in a gs we

685
00:47:46,640 –> 00:47:49,840
[Unknown]: mentioned sample del one hundred twenty three videos about how these things work

686
00:47:50,400 –> 00:47:54,480
[Unknown]: goo carolina attorneys com and then give us a call we’re more willing to help so

687
00:47:54,560 –> 00:47:58,160
[Unknown]: thank you melissa it’s been a pleasure yes sir ive got bad news for you we’re going

688
00:47:58,320 –> 00:48:02,480
[Unknown]: to have more things to talk about that’s what a good podcast does is i’ve already

689
00:48:02,560 –> 00:48:06,720
[Unknown]: written down some notes of the next five or six different things so thank you so

690
00:48:06,800 –> 00:48:09,200
[Unknown]: much and thank you all for listening to law talk

 

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