A judge gave a Nichols Law Firm client with prior DUI convictions a second chance and allowed him to earn the ability to stay out of jail by seeing through substance-abuse-treatment, despite the aggressive request for jail time from the probation department. "The judge recognized that before him was a citizen-facing-jail-for-his-3rd-DUI conviction but that this was not someone who belongs in jail" said attorney Mike Nichols. Nichols added: "there was nothing special or magical about this gentleman or his background but he did everything that the Nichols-Law-Firm-team-of-DUI-attorneys advised him to do to resume abstinence and keep walking the path of sobriety. Relapse is part of recovery. I commend the judge for not falling into the trap of treating every case the same way and realizing that this case was a chance for a citizen struggling with sobriety to avoid jail," Nichols also said. The client's sentence included 2 years of probation with intensive monitoring to ensure that he remains abstinent. If he stays in treatment and verifies sobriety, a sentence of 45 days in jail will be suspended completely and the client will not serve any time behind bars. |