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Virginia Beach DUI Attorney – Chesapeake DUI Lawyer : § 18.2-270. Penalty for driving while intoxicated; subsequent offense; prior conviction. | Swango Law P.C.
Except as otherwise provided herein, any person violating any provision of § 18.2-266 shall be guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor with a mandatory minimum fine of $ 250. If the person’s blood alcohol level as indicated by the chemical test administered as provided in this article or by any other scientifically reliable chemical test performed on whole blood under circumstances reliably establishing the identity of the person who is the source of the blood and the accuracy of the results (i) was at least 0.15, but not more than 0.20, he shall be confined in jail for an additional mandatory minimum period of five days or, (ii) if the level was more than 0.20, for an additional mandatory minimum period of 10 days.
B. 1. Any person convicted of a second offense committed within less than five years after a prior offense under § 18.2-266 shall upon conviction of the second offense be punished by a mandatory minimum fine of $ 500 and by confinement in jail for not less than one month nor more than one year. Twenty days of such confinement shall be a mandatory minimum sentence.
C. 1. Any person convicted of three offenses of § 18.2-266 committed within a 10-year period shall upon conviction of the third offense be guilty of a Class 6 felony. The sentence of any person convicted of three offenses of § 18.2-266 committed within a 10-year period shall include a mandatory minimum sentence of 90 days, unless the three offenses were committed within a five-year period, in which case the sentence shall include a mandatory minimum sentence of confinement for six months. In addition, such person shall be fined a mandatory minimum fine of $ 1,000.
2. The punishment of any person convicted of a fourth or subsequent offense of § 18.2-266 committed within a 10-year period shall, upon conviction, include a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of one year. In addition, such person shall be fined a mandatory minimum fine of $ 1,000. Unless otherwise modified by the court, the defendant shall remain on probation and under the terms of any suspended sentence for the same period as his operator’s license was suspended, not to exceed three years.
NORTH CAROLINA STATUTE NOT SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR TO § 18.2-269 A 3. –Under subdivision A 3 of § 18.2-269 of the Code of Virginia, an accused may present evidence to rebut the presumption, and if such evidence creates a reasonable doubt as to his guilt, the fact finder must acquit. In North Carolina, however, mere proof that an accused’s blood alcohol is 0.10 percent is conclusive as to guilt. With such a fundamental difference, the North Carolina statute (§ 20-138.1 of the General Statutes of North Carolina) is not substantially similar within the meaning of this section. Shinault v. Commonwealth, 228 Va.269, 321 S.E.2d 652 (1984).
IN A DUI SECOND OFFENSE TRIAL, THE BURDEN IS ON THE COMMONWEALTH TO PROVE THE PRIOR CONVICTION BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT. McBride v. Commonwealth, 24 Va. App. 30, 480 S.E.2d 126 (1997).

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