Mimi Coffey | Attorney at Law

I ask you. Two recent fact scenarios. Had a guy on a 10 year DWI felony probation who had 2 interlock violations (the machine in your car) in one month 2 years after he started probation. Both blows were well below the legal limit. One of these blows involved him just attempting to start the car for nondriving purposes. While waiting for the Motion to Revoke hearing he was on SCRAM (ankle monitor that measures your sweat for alcohol via satellite) for over 100 days with NO alcohol violations and he started an intense rehab program (at his own expense) where he was progressing well. His options with the judge who oversees the SAFP program (conflict of interest ? I ask you !) for all courts (SAFP is a “treatment” program in prison that costs taxpayers $30k a prisoner where they will spend close to a year in prison with over a 75% recidivism rate) : SAFP (wow, what a surprise !) or prison. He took the 2 years prison rather than suffer the humiliation of SAFP (described as a...