Fourth 4th offense Kentucky DUI Cases are for 2007 punished as follows:

Lookback period is now 5 years from date of arrest to date of prior arrest!

• Fine: $1,000-$10,000. Total of about 500.0 more than the fine alone is added as service fees and required counseling before you are done.   Expect huge increases in insurance costs from  24,000 to 96,000 dollars (the extra 400 to 1600 per month for insurance adds up over then next five years as you drive if you can get it at all).  
• Jail: Class D felony. One to five years. At least 120 days of the sentence must be served.
• License Revocation: 60 months. No hardship license.
• Alcohol and Drug Assessment and Treatment: One year.

  Aggravating Factors

  After October 1, 2000, Kentucky DUI law establishes a list of six aggravating factors, which, double the mandatory minimum jail sentence.

  The aggravating factors are:

  1. Operating a motor vehicle in excess of thirty (30) miles per hour above the speed limit;
  2. Operating a motor vehicle in the wrong direction on a limited access highway;
  3. Operating a motor vehicle that causes an accident resulting in death or serious physical injury;
  4. Operating a motor vehicle while the alcohol concentration in the operator's blood or breath is 0.18 or more as measured by a test or tests of a sample of the operator's blood or breath taken within two (2) hours of cessation of operation of the motor vehicle;
  5. Refusing to submit to any test of one's blood, breath or urine requested by an officer having reasonable grounds to believe the person was operating or in physical control of a motor vehicle in violation of the DUI laws;
  6. Operating a motor vehicle that is transporting a passenger under the age of twelve (12) years old.

Only a "not guilty" verdict or other non-DUI disposition of the case will prevent these onsequences.  This puts a premium on winning your DUI case, or obtaining a non-DUI disposition.

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