In a lot of states, repeated DUIs get you a felony rap. I don’t know if there’s anywhere that a single DUI is considered a felony, but MADD probably won’t rest until they ram that through all 50 states.
God knows drunk driving is one of the stupidest things you can do, and dangerous as hell. But sometimes MADD sounds more like the Women’s Christian Temperance Union...too much focus on the “drunk” and not enough on the “driving.”
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afaik the only way to get a felony DUI first try is complicate it with serious injury, death, or child endangerment.
in MI, 3d offense is an automatic felony.