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Two oas within one month. Maine. Advice needed. Looking for advice,hire a lawyer?
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21 male with no criminal history,a couple minor speeding tickets and one oas from the past.
A few years ago I was given a court date that I never received any notice for,leading to a suspened license and being arrested one night after being pulled over. recently the same thing has happened,I was areested and let out on bail conditions that I wouldn't operate a morer vehicle until my court date.
Unfortunately my rides to work and school were limited and I did end up having to drive to work. Well for some unknown reason(my bad luck) I was pulled over,I immediately told the officer I had been suspened a few weeks prior and explained everything he was very understanding. Obviously he couldn't just let me go free, but he did not arrest me and instead gave me a ticket and court date.
It is important that you get an attorney to assist you with this case. If convicted of these two new charges of Operating After Suspension (OAS), you may become a "habitual offender" and therefore lose your license for three years. A habitual offender (HO) is defined as, among other things, a person who has accumulated three or more convictions for certain driving crimes within a five-year period. OAS is a qualifying crime. So, if your one OAS conviction from the past was within five years of the date of violation of your latest alleged OAS incident, and if you are convicted of these two pending OAS charges, then you will have accumulated three such convictions in five years and therefore be deemed HO.
Thus, it is important that you get a competent attorney who can evaluate your cases and either negotiate a plea deal that would allow you to avoid becoming HO or fight the case(s) at trial, if there is a viable defense.
It looks like you are headed for habitual offender status if you are convicted of the two pending OAS charges. You sorely need to try to avoid conviction of at least one of them.
