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If you get arrested for DUI, driving
under the influence of alcohol, in California,
you're generally charged with two different offenses.
There's Vehicle Code Section 23152(a),
which is driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs
or both and Vehicle Code Section 23152(b),
which is driving with a 0.08 BAC or higher.
These are actually two separate crimes.
They're both misdemeanors.
Now, if you plead guilty-- if you go into court
and you reach a plea bargain with the prosecutor,
to plead guilty, then usually you
will plead to one of these counts
and the prosecutor will dismiss the other.
If you go to jury trial, and suppose
you're convicted of both of these,
that the (a) count and the (b) count,
it's still treated as only one DUI on your record.
So even if you go down on both counts,
it's not like you're picking up two DUIs.
It's really treated as one DUI.
It's just alternate ways that the prosecutor
can go about trying to prove you guilty of the crime.