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California License Suspension after a DUI. Welcome everyone to the DUI Minute, a series of educational videos brought to you by San Diego Defenders. Hi I’m Dan Smith, your host, the supervising attorney for San Diego Defenders. Today we’re giving you some educational points that are not meant to be legal advice. If you need legal advice please contact your attorney, and talk to him or her specifically about the issues regarding your case. Today we’re talking about what happens after or if the DMV suspends your license. Now the DMV goes through the admin per se process, and we talked about that a little bit earlier. If the DMV rules that your license should be suspended, there’s a series of things that you can do. You can talk this over with your attorney; you can enter the first conviction program and receive the right to get a restricted driver’s license. It’s called restricted for a reason. Now it restricts you to drive to and from work, to and from and your educational institution, but it doesn’t allow you to do a lot of other things. For instance, you can’t go to the bar and have a beer with your buddies, and you certainly won’t be able to do that under those conditions. What it really means is that it’s restricted to, again, driving to and from work and for educational purposes. But there’s one hiccup in there that I want you to remember. Many many times the court will order you to do the Mothers Against Drunk Driver program. Okay that’s California; it may be …

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