1. Is it useful for the client to get a lawyer when he is drunk?
Useful. According to the provisions of the Criminal Law, a driver who drives a motor vehicle while drunk constitutes a crime of dangerous driving, and can be sentenced to criminal detention of up to six months and fined according to law.
As for defense lawyers, their duty is to put forward materials and opinions on the innocence, light crime or reduction or exemption of criminal responsibility of criminal suspects and defendants according to facts and laws, and safeguard the litigation rights and other legitimate rights and interests of criminal suspects and defendants. Therefore, if a party entrusts a lawyer to defend, the lawyer can put forward defense opinions in favor of the party according to specific facts and corresponding legal provisions, and strive for a lighter punishment for the party. If the crime is minor, he can also fight for probation.
2. What are the penalties for drunk driving and drunk driving?
Those who drive a motor vehicle after drinking alcohol shall be detained for six months and fined between 1,000 yuan and 2,000 yuan. Whoever is punished for driving a motor vehicle after drinking or driving a motor vehicle after drinking again shall be detained for not more than 10 days, fined not less than 1,000 yuan but not more than 2,000 yuan, and his motor vehicle driver's license shall be revoked.
Drunk driving a motor vehicle shall be restrained by the traffic administrative department of the public security organ until it wakes up, and the motor vehicle driving license shall be revoked, and criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; No motor vehicle driver's license shall be obtained again within five years.
Anyone who drives a motor vehicle after drinking alcohol shall be detained for 15 days, fined 5,000 yuan, and his motor vehicle driver's license revoked. No motor vehicle driver's license shall be obtained again within five years.
Anyone who drives or operates a motor vehicle in a drunken state shall be restrained by the traffic administrative department of the public security organ until he wakes up, his motor vehicle driving license shall be revoked, and criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law; No motor vehicle driver's license shall be obtained again within ten years, and no motor vehicle shall be driven or operated after obtaining the motor vehicle driver's license again.
If a serious traffic accident occurs after drinking or drunk driving a motor vehicle, which constitutes a crime, criminal responsibility shall be investigated according to law, and the traffic administrative department of the public security organ shall revoke the motor vehicle driving license and shall not re-obtain the motor vehicle driving license for life.
To sum up, drunk driving is a dangerous driving crime, and the owner will be investigated for criminal responsibility and face the consequences of sentencing. Therefore, once compulsory measures are taken by the public security organs, lawyers should be invited. Asking a good lawyer to defend himself may give him a chance to get a lighter punishment. At the trial stage, lawyers also provide defense.