{"id":33,"date":"2026-07-10T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/10\/does-a-dui-charge-always-mean-losing-your-license\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:40:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T11:40:25","slug":"does-a-dui-charge-always-mean-losing-your-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/2026\/07\/10\/does-a-dui-charge-always-mean-losing-your-license\/","title":{"rendered":"Does a DUI charge always mean losing your license?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No \u2014 but the clock is much shorter than most people realise, and the licence question moves on a separate track from the criminal case.<\/p>\n<h2>Two proceedings, not one<\/h2>\n<p>A DUI arrest triggers a statutory summary suspension through the Secretary of State as well as a criminal charge. The suspension is automatic and civil; the criminal case is separate and slower.<\/p>\n<h2>The deadline that catches people out<\/h2>\n<p>A petition to rescind the summary suspension must be filed promptly, and a hearing held within 30 days of the request. Miss it and the suspension stands regardless of how the criminal case ends.<\/p>\n<h2>What can be challenged<\/h2>\n<p>Whether the stop was lawful, whether the officer had reasonable grounds, whether warnings were properly given, and whether the breath instrument was certified and correctly operated.<\/p>\n<h2>Driving in the meantime<\/h2>\n<p>First offenders are generally eligible for a monitoring device driving permit, which allows work and family driving with an interlock installed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No \u2014 but the clock is much shorter than most people realise, and the licence question moves on a separate track from the criminal&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-criminal-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33\/revisions\/58"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-attorney-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}