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May 5, 2020
If you are convicted of Driving While Impaired (DWI) in North Carolina, the Division of Motor Vehicles will automatically suspend your driver’s license for at least one year. However, that doesn’t mean you won’t be able to drive during that time. A Limited Driving Privilege is an order from a judge allowing you to drive during certain hours and for certain limited purposes. It supersedes DMV’s revocation of your driver’s […]
Read moreSep 11, 2019
WHAT IS PROBATION? Probation is an alternative to active jail time. It allows the judge to “suspend” the active portion of a sentence and place the defendant on probation for a number of months instead. Unless the defendant’s probation gets revoked during that time, (s)he will never have to serve the active portion of his or her sentence. HOW DOES PROBATION WORK? (The nuts & bolts of probation) If you […]
Read moreAug 28, 2019
Parrott Law PLLC is proud to announce their induction, along with 467 other attorneys, into the 2018 North Carolina Pro Bono Society. Click here to read the full article.
Read moreAug 26, 2019
If you are convicted of DWI in North Carolina, the judge will put you into one of six levels of various aggravating factors. Your sentencing level depends on the existence of statutorily defined mitigating, aggravating, and/or grossly aggravating factors. Below is a list of those factors: MITIGATING FACTORS of DWI in North Carolina (N.C.G.S. § 20-179(e))* Slight impairment of the defendant’s faculties resulting solely from alcohol, and an alcohol concentration that did […]
Read moreAug 7, 2019
Not necessarily. To establish a prima facie case for Driving While Impaired in North Carolina, there are several elements that the State has to prove. Specifically, it must prove that you (1) drove (2) a vehicle (3) on a street, highway, or public vehicular area (4) while impaired. In North Carolina, blowing a 0.08 or higher creates a rebuttable presumption that you were impaired. However, it does not affect elements 1-3. There […]
Read moreMay 14, 2019
Driving While Impaired is a misdemeanor in North Carolina. It has its own sentencing scheme and Structured Sentencing does not apply. The punishments for DWI in North Carolina are laid out in N.C.G.S. § 20-179. There are six different levels of DWI in North Carolina, ranging from Level 5 (lowest) to A1 (highest). A defendant’s level depends upon the existence of and weight assigned to certain statutorily defined aggravating, grossly aggravating, […]
Read moreApr 19, 2019
“Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun.” Do you know what I’m talking about? (For all the millennials out there who are too young to remember that jingle: those are the ingredients for a McDonald’s Big Mac). Let me ask you this: if you have all of those ingredients, but you don’t have any special sauce…do you have a Big Mac? I would […]
Read moreJul 27, 2017
From July 10 to July 14, I was fortunate to have an opportunity to participate in the Indigent Defense Services and UNC School of Government’s Defender Trial School. The program is in a “bring your own case” format; with plenary sessions where we learned general trial practice techniques as well as small group workshops where we each applied those lessons to our own individual cases. Overall the program was excellent. […]
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