After the ten years have expired, the DUI will no longer be held against you on your driving record. In the state of California, penalties for DUIs can range from misdemeanors to felonies depending on the circumstances. However, for most first-offense DUIs, you are looking at a misdemeanor—unless you hurt someone. After ten years, the DUI will no longer be held against you and any subsequent DUI would be treated as a first offense. Law enforcement and employers will still be able to view the record.
In that way your conviction will remain on your record forever. Previously, California law kept a DUI on your driving record only 7 years. This was changed in If you have any past DUI conviction, even from before the law changed, it will now stay on your record the full 10 years.
In the future, the period could be even longer. All drivers start with 0 points, but may acquire points for certain infractions—like speeding, or DUI—or for causing an accident.
Points hurt you in two ways. For one thing, they affect your insurance rates. More points mean higher car insurance bills.
Additionally, they can cost you your license. Your license will be suspended if:. Each DUI adds two points to your license.
Obviously, the sooner those points go away, the better off you are. Unfortunately, DUI points also take the longest to get off your license. Points from a DUI stay on for 13 years. There is no way to shorten this period. But you can reduce your total points in other ways. Points from traffic tickets, for example, can sometimes be removed if you agree to go to traffic school. You can look up DMV approved traffic schools here. To clear your DUI through an expungement, you must file an application and appear in court.
During your hearing, you go before a judge who decides whether to grant your request. You must wait to meet specific qualifications before applying for an expungement. Before applying in California, you must not have current criminal charges, you must serve your probation, and all other penalties and imprisonment cannot be part of your sentence.
Rather than your conviction date, the 10 years a DUI remains on your driving record starts the day police arrested you. Currently, you cannot expunge a DUI from your driving record before completing the year period.
You may not care much about clearing your charge from your driving record, as only the DMV, police and insurance companies have access to the information. Criminal investigators, employers and higher learning institutions running background checks do not see your driving record.
If you do not expunge a drunk driving charge from your criminal record in California, or if a judge denies your request for expungement, the mark remains on your criminal record permanently.
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