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Timestamp: 2019-04-23 17:03:19+00:00

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1. How does the prosecutor prove a VC 23582 DUI speed and reckless driving enhancement?
DUI offender who speed and drive recklessly face an additional 60 days in jail under California Vehicle Code 23582 VC.
Let's take a closer look at the second two requirements.
"Posted" speed limits are those set forth on signs that line freeways and streets. They indicate the maximum speed for a specific stretch of roadway.
But note that speeding, alone, does not trigger a DUI sentencing enhancement under VC 23582. The defendant must also have committed reckless driving.
The maximum speed limit on California residential streets is 25 mph unless a higher limit is posted.
He/she was not driving recklessly.
The defense does not have to prove these things. Rather, the burden is on the prosecutor to prove that all three elements ARE present.
But an experienced drunk driving defense lawyer will usually try to raise a "reasonable doubt" as to one or more of these three factors.
"Overzealous prosecutors love to allege the DUI speeding enhancement. And officers will sometimes claim the driver was going 95 just to trigger the enhancement—even when there was no radar gun or solid evidence to prove it."
“Exhibition of speed,” Vehicle Code 23109(c).
Example: An LAPD officer catches Kelly running multiple stop signs in a residential neighborhood at almost 50 mph. A DUI breath test shows her blood alcohol concentration (BAC) to be just at California's legal limit of .08%. Kelly is arrested and charged with DUI under both VC 23152(a) and (b). The prosecutor also charges a speed/reckless driving enhancement under VC 23582.
But Kelly's Los Angeles DUI lawyer knows that the borderline DUI charge is weak. Since it's is Kelly's first arrest, the lawyer convinces the prosecutor to drop the DUI charge to a "wet reckless.” Since the speed enhancement only applies to a DUI conviction, it gets dropped as well. Kelly pays a fine and gets put on probation, but she stays out of jail.
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Vehicle Code 23152(b): “It is unlawful for any person who has 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle."
Vehicle Code 23153: “(a) It is unlawful for any person, while under the influence of any alcoholic beverage or drug, or under the combined influence of any alcoholic beverage and drug, to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver. (b) It is unlawful for any person, while having 0.08 percent or more, by weight, of alcohol in his or her blood to drive a vehicle and concurrently do any act forbidden by law, or neglect any duty imposed by law in driving the vehicle, which act or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person other than the driver."
Farm labor vehicles transporting people.
People v. Schumacher (1961) 194 Cal.App.2d 335, 340: "The term 'wantonness' is thus defined: ‘Wantonness includes the elements of consciousness of one's conduct, intent to do or omit the act in question, realization of the probable injury to another, and reckless disregard of consequences.' [Citation.] ... The word 'willful' in this connection means 'intentional' [citations]. The intention here referred to relates to the disregard of safety, etc., not merely to the act done in disregard thereof." (People v. Nowell, 45 Cal.App.2d Supp. 811, 815 [ 114 P.2d 81].)"
See also California Jury Instructions - Criminal -- CALJIC 16.840 -- Reckless driving: "Willful or wanton disregard" means an intentional or conscious disregard for the safety of persons or property."
See also Judicial Council of California Criminal Jury Instruction (CALCRIM) 2200: "A person acts with wanton disregard for safety when (1) he or she is aware that his or her actions present a substantial and unjustifiable risk of harm, and (2) he or she intentionally ignores that risk. The person does not, however, have to intend to cause damage."
People v. Allison (1951) 101 Cal.App.2d Supp. 932, 936: "[T]here is no evidence that he willfully and wantonly disregarded the safety of the complaining witness or that he acted with conscious and reckless disregard for the safety of the complaining witness or his children, or that his conduct indicates a wanton and reckless disregard of probable (as distinguished from possible) injury to the complaining witness."
People v. Clenney (1958) 165 Cal.App.2d 241, 248: "We hold that the crimes of driving an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor and of reckless driving are separate, distinct offenses, established by different evidence. To drive an automobile while under the influence of intoxicating liquor (as defined by the California courts) is not, per se, a willful and wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property."
See also CALCRIM 2200: “[If you conclude that the defendant drove faster than the legal speed limit, that fact by itself does not establish that the defendant drove with wanton disregard for safety. You may consider the defendant's speed, along with all the surrounding circumstances, in deciding whether the defendant drove with wanton disregard for safety.]"
See People v. Allison at 935, endnote 14, above: "It is of course thoroughly settled that negligence, even though it be [criminal or] gross negligence, is not willful misconduct and does not amount to reckless driving. (Meek v. Fowler, 3 Cal.2d 420 [45 P.2d 194]; McCann v. Hoffman, 9 Cal.2d 279 [70 P.2d 909]; Porter v. Hofman, 12 Cal.2d 445 [85 P.2d 447].)"
See In re Alicia W. -- Not Reported in Cal.Rptr.2d, 2002 WL 1357141.
Vehicle Code 23582(a), endnote 4.
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