Pleading Guilty to a Drinking and Driving Charge

If you plead guilty to a Drinking and Driving Charge, the Judge cannot drop any of the mandatory penalties. You will automatically lose your licence for at least one year, receive a criminal conviction, and be subject to the licence reinstatement process with the Ministry of Transportation.

The only thing the Judge can do for an early guilty plea to any Impaired Driving or Drinking and Driving offence is reduce the amount of the fine.

All other penalties for Impaired Driving, Drive over 80mgs and any drinking and driving offence are mandatory. There is no conditional licence, nor licence to travel back and forth from work. The accused is prohibited by law from operating any type of motor vehicle in Canada. The penalty, if caught for driving while prohibited, is JAIL.

There are very few times when it is to the accused benefit to plead guilty. Trials have been won on the very simple and the most complicated grounds. Issues considered are: is the officer in court, is the paper work correct, is all of the evidence obtained legally, are there any Charter of Right issues, are there time delay issues? just to mention a few.