Honestly do you want to kill someone before you learn your lesson. You could have just as easily gone to jail for killing someone as for your second DUI. Im sorry but by your question it seems like you really arnt maning up yet and taking this as your responsible to learn and pay the price for what you have done. If you dont learn again after this your second DUI the next time we will probably be hearing about your innocent victims being scraped off the street.

yes you and those around you got lucky.

Sorry to say I've got no sympathy for you. 90 days seems fair for a first offence. However as a second shows either a total disregard for others, or an inability to understand the potential consequences, I'd recommend another 90 days plus a lifetime driving ban. Why should you be treated leniently simply because everyone else was lucky this time.

I think first offense can be forgiven. But this is your second offense even if it seems 90 days is too much, well probably there should be some sort of time in jail for second offense onwards increasing the time spent in the jail. It's true that you haven't caused any accidents but you have risking all people around you and yourself. Next time hire a driver so that you can drink and travel whenever you want.

Personally, if it's your first DUI, I'd support 90 days in jail. If it's your second, I'd want your drivers license taken away for the rest of your life, plus a few years behind bars.

Did you do community service on your first DUI conviction? If so, community service is out of the question. you had your chance and blew it. Looks like your turkey and Christmas is going to be behind bars this year. I hope being drunk behind the wheel was worth it.

well my brother gt a dui and gt two months in jail and i think no jail time

1st offense D.U.I. should be 30 days automatic at time of arrest.

The fact that you have not hurt anyone or been in an accident is more good luck than good management. You clearly don't think you've done anything wrong so some jail time is in order so that you can fully understand how serious your offense is.

You might not have caused an accident yet, but the fact is that a large proportion of road fatalities are caused by people who are drunk. Really, until you can take responsibility for your own actions you shouldn't be driving at all. I hope that this sentence will bring you to your senses.

You're dealing in moral luck here. Your rationalization for your actions is that because no one was hurt what you did wasn't very bad. Whereas the same actions could have cost you or someone else their life. Like the others answers here, I agree that a first offense might merit community service. Everyone makes mistakes and no matter how outraged we are at drunk drivers, the fact is many of us have made poor decisions. The 2nd offense, however, I believe merits not only the 90 days but additional community service, preferably in a children's hospital unit.

Wow, that sucks for you, I guess maybe, just maybe you'll think about it before you drink and drive again.

I could shoot a machine gun wildly in the direction of a group of people and hit none of them, but it would be more luck than anything else, and the intent would remain. You may not have caused an accident or hurt anyone, but you drove a potentially fatal weapon whilst not in full control, and knowing that it was wrong and could potentially create a widow, or orphan out of someone. As it was your second offence for the same thing then the lesson has not been learned, so I would be happy to see you go to prison.

People don't go to jail because they never killed anyone. You are going because you drank anyway, have a huge drinking problem and are in such great denial that even the possibility of jailtime did not stop you from boozing and driving. Instead of feeling sorry for yourself because you got caught try asking yourself what kind of addiction you have that made you go out and do it again. I have had 2 DUI's and I didn't hurt anyone either. I deservered every dollar I paid to the state for my mistake and I am sober today because of it.

Yet, anyway!

The way the system works is you don't get to pick after the fact - you had some options before. I have no doubt that from your perspective you think so. You don't want to hear what I think should be done. +5

Frank, blunt opinion: I'm really not sure what DUI even means. "Driving Under Influence." Of what? Of anything the police officer chooses to call an "influence"? The whole DUI complex is an egregious excrescence of American Naziism. It's a vindictive campaign aimed at drinkers in general, a leftover from the days of Prohibition and the WCTU, carries on, magnified and exacerbated by one woman whose child was killed in a car accident. Granted that a drunken driver was at fault, the death of one or of hundreds does not justify the Draconian war now being waged, not against alcohol but against drinkers. First: if someone is "under the influence" of medication, marijuana, or music from the car radio, it's a one-size-fits-all casting net which allows any police officer to do almost anything he wants to any driver at all. Second: if a driver observes all traffic rules and regulations and does no harm or damage to anyone or anything, he hasn't violated anything at all. If a crash, injury, or death results; it is still a crash, injury, or death simply AGGRAVATED by the use of alcohol. That is the time and occasion for Draconian punishnment, not for a war on drivers.

Well, it seems the advertizements about the law against drinking and driving didn't teach you anything, neither did your first arrest cement the fact that you're not supposed to drink and drive. Maybe 90 days in jail will get it through your head that you aren't supposed to drive drunk. And if it dosen't, well, at least you'll lose your licence so you'll be less likely to gamble with everyone else's lives.

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Statistics show that a person caught for their first DUI have probably driven under the influence 100 times, that is just the first time they were caught. So, if we apply those statistics to you, that would mean you are probably at about 200 times. Now, you will probably lie and say that you have only done it twice, but even if that were true, that is still two times too many. So, obviously whether you are closer to twice or two hundred, you haven't gotten the message. It doesn't matter that you haven't hurt anyone yet, that means you only got lucky. You need to get the message loud and clear that if you keep this up...YOU WILL HURT SOMEONE. I do agree that there are things more effective than jail...like revoking your license for a year and making you take the bus everyday, and making you attend AA meetings every single day. That would work as well. But, I don't feel sorry for you at all.

if its your second dui ,then its obviously not the first time you drove drunk.you've obviously driven drunk dozens of times.you could kill people or yourself.you need in-patient treatment and jail time.driving drunk makes you a ticking time bomb.

Simply put the longer you think you can get away with just one more DUI the more your chances grow that you will do harm to someone. Personally I could care less if you do harm to yourself....its the person that is the innocent bystander that seems to end up with the short end of the stick. I hope your insurance rates spike and ultimately they revoke your d/l for the rest of your pathetic life!

You know it's wrong to drink and drive. You know it's dangerous, you've heard all the stories, right? How can you be sure you never hurt anybody or caused an accident? If you drove drunk any other time, you could have very well been oblivious to what happened after you swerved into another lane for a second or ran a stop sign you didn't realize was there. So, anyway, what makes you so special that you shouldn't have to pay the price for breaking the law?

You should go to jail. My cousin was murdered by someone just like you (a drunk driver).

Please watch this.

The sentence is absolutely correct. You need a little time out. These sentences were mandated because many repeat offenders get their 2nd, 3rd, and 4th D.U.I's in rapid succession over a few months, because they weren't treated harshly enough on their first offense. Taking away driving privileges and community service wasn't enough to convince them of the error of their ways. 90 days in jail for someone who has never been there is just enough time for them to realize they NEVER want to go there again, but not so much time that it cannot be survived.

The problem is that you COULD have KILLED someone like a young child, a pregnant mother, or ANYONE ..... You say this is your 2nd SUI .. so apparently you did NOT learn your lesson the First time ..... You obviously need some JAIL / Prison time to help you LEARN that you should not drive while under the influence of drugs or / and alcohol .... Stop feeling sorry for yourself and accept your punishment like an adult ....

If you didn't hurt anyone, no, you probably shouldn't have to go to jail. However, drinking and driving, while it shouldn't be banned in and of itself (both are legal activities anyway), is incredibly selfish and irresponsible and there's really no excuse for it. Actually, driving by itself is irresponsible and doing it while sober suggests you're consciously and willingly doing something harmful without the influence of a substance. Why don't you move somewhere near a bunch of bars? You could walk home and safely drink all you want without hurting anyone.