My husband was sentenced 24 months DOC time in North Carolina, for his 2nd DWI. He has a projected release date of 4/7/2011. He has 5 1/2 months in already. I am currently 7 1/2 months pregnant w/ a high risk pregnancy. We also have 4 small children ages 12, 7, 5 and 3. Since his incaration we have been evicted from our home and are currently staying w/ friends. I am on medications to control pre-term labor and can not work due to this. My husband is an industrial painter and is highly qualfied. I wrote the judge that sentenced him asking if he would consider reducing his sentence. Do you think there is any chance of this happening, or are m hopes too high?

There is always a chance... but you have to realise its his second offense, and the judge WILL remember that.

One never knows, but there are a dozen sob stories for every inmate in prison, and since DUI are the cause for serious accidents and death, sorry, I know it is hard on you, but he is where he deserves to be. I work daily with the victims of crimes like this, people who are 30 and can't feed themselves and have to wear diapers or the engineer who can't remember how to walk any longer.

Tough sentences may help others think twice on this.

As Fr_Chuck said... for most people you can visualizwe the violins playing right now... lots of people have been and continue to be killed, maimed and chilren left without fathers, moters, households that no longer have the major breadwinner to support them, lots of parents that lost children. All to drunk drivers... and even worse, REPEAT drunk drivers.

Remember the 70's TV cop show Beretta? His favorite line was...

"Don't do the crime if you can't do the time...."

It was actually part of the theme song too.

Sorry if that comes across as harsh... but I personally know people who also have families that are doing a stretch in jail for being a repeat Drunk driver. I grew up with the guy, He was a neighbor but I give him no more pity than anyone else will get.