Student Charged With Driving While Impaired in Narragansett RI
Criminal Charge:
Man charged in the Rhode Island District Court (4th Division) for:
- Driving While Impaired, in violation of R.I.G.L. § 31-27-2.7
Case Overview:
Narragansett Police performed a traffic stop of a vehicle observed to be speeding, operating outside its travel lane and making erratic turns. Following a traffic stop, police observed the operator to be under the influence. The driver failed both field sobriety tests and a chemical breath test. This triggered his arrest. Because the young man was under the age of 21, police charged him with Driving while Impaired, a civil violation, in Rhode Island District Court (4th Division), as well as several civil infractions in the Rhode Island Traffic Tribunal. The motorist was a college student and a resident of New York and feared how an alcohol related charge could adversely impact his license and standing in school. He hired Rhode Island Criminal Defense Lawyer, John L. Calcagni III, and his team negotiated a resolution of the man’s cases that called for dismissal of the traffic citations to be dismissed and for a reduction of the criminal charge, to be filed for one year.
Case Result: Amended to Reckless Driving and Filed.
Under Rhode Island law, a “filing” calls for acceptance of responsibility to the charged offense and does also does not result in any punishment or criminal conviction. Instead, the case is filed for the one year and providing the man does not get in any trouble during this period, the matter will be eligible for expungement at its conclusion, leaving the man with a clean record and no adverse effects on his New York license.