Legal Question in DUI Law in California

Serve jail-time or community service?

Trying to use as small a space as possible, I'm trying to find out a guesstimate of how long I would serve time if I opted to serve time rather than do community service? I heard this is specific to the county so Santa Clara is the county I need. Another lawyer told me that in Los Angeles County right now it is 10% of the sentence. So if i was sentenced 10 days to community service, I could opt to serve time, probably only 1 day. But this was because of overcrowding in LA county. I need this for Santa Clara county because i was sentenced for 6 days but school starts in 3!


Asked on 6/12/05, 11:58 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Michael Stone Law Offices of Michael B. Stone Toll Free 1-855-USE-MIKE

Re: Serve jail-time or community service?

You can ask around at the court, but you're not going to get all this done, and your time served if it comes to that, in 3 days. If you need more time to do community service, or whatever, you need to go into court at 8:30 AM sharp, ask the clerk to put up your case, and ask the judge for more time or permission to do community service (or jail time ) on weekends so as not to inerfere with your school.

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Answered on 6/13/05, 12:26 am


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