Legal Question in Traffic Law in South Carolina

You are right. The Third Offense has mandatory jail time. But you have to be carefull. It used to be that in order to convict someone of a third offense, they had to have been convicted of a second offense. That is not true now. The law now reads that they can convict someone of a third offense who only has two first offense convictions. In other words, they can now go back and literally count the convictions.