Should the law be changed for DUIs in Illinois?

Recently I was sleeping in my car waiting for my boyfriend to get off work so we could walk to his house which was about 15 minutes away. I had been drinking for my friends birthday so I didn't want to drive or walk by myself at 12:30 at night. I was given a DUI for sleeping in my car and I have so far paid over $4000, not including any ticketed fines. How do I fight this law? I feel like it's only pushing people to drive drunk because spending $40+ on a cab seems expensive. I want to get more public transportation in the chicago burbs! I'm wondering if there is a way to fight this law, and how the hell to get a bus to come through the western burbs of chicago.|||wow they actually did that? that's ******* bullshit.



you should argue with them. tell them that they cant charge u with Driveing under the influence if you werent driving the ******* car or if it wasnt even running and u were in the goddamn back seat|||No and it seems right to me that you got one. You drove to your boyfriends work place. You say sleeping but I would guess passed out. It is not pushing people to drive drunk. It is pushing them not to because the penalty is steep. Don't you wish you had spent that forty dollars on a cab now? As to the rest you petition your city to examine the need for transit in your area. Changing the law is not going to happen as most see it as a good law.|||The law is about the same in almost all states.


Run for state legislature. For years, until organizations like MADD got involved in lobbying, the alws for DUI were so lax and complex to enforce that if you hired a lawyer, whose lobby helped get the legislatures elected, you won You case and got to be drunk and in control of a dangerous weapon, a car again.





Yep a car is a dangerous weapon. So would you want a sleeping drunk to have control over a loaded handgun to be used at any time?|||if you have a serious problem figuring out that drinking got you into this mess then you should seek counsel for Alcohol Abuse..clearly you have operated on the presumption you can do as you please


NOT SO...this is like if they caught you with a 357...unloaded but still could be a threat