Under a State of Georgia Bar Policy Statement, any applicant who wants to sit for the Georgia Bar Exam is ineligiblefor fitness certification (meaning you can’t take the bar) during the 12 month sentence mandated by Georgia law. You are precluded from sitting for the Bar even if the DUI case was reduced to reckless driving for 6 months from the date of conviction. In its policy, the State Bar says “In the case of an applicant who was charged with DUI but for whom the charges were reduced, resulting in a reckless driving plea, failure to maintain lane or other lesser offenses, the Bar is concerned about disregard for the law as well as possible patterns of problems relating to alcohol abuse.” HUH??? So a person charged with DUI, who perhaps registered below a .08, whose case is reduced because the prosecutor (who knows more about the case?), somehow disregards the law?
What a joke coming from an organization which recently ran commercials misleading the public into believing that “criminals” were running wild in the streets because the State had not provided funds for courts. How misleading is that? A person is not a “criminal” until proven guilty beyong a reasonable doubt.
Bottom line: If you are in law school and get arrested for DUI, HIRE a qualified DUI defense lawyer(like mgradui!)

Tags: DUI, Georgia State Bar Association, Law School, reckless driving

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