State Attorney and drunk driving

Question

Hi. our story first.. my son was stoped in a roadblock for dui they book him took his blood and he paid the bail. the next day he went to court and the date was moved to February all this happen in Port Elizabeth, any way we went to the the state attorney and told him my son is gooing to join the french foreign legion and we need to pay the quilty fine he told us no we must come back for the blood results. ok before my son went to the legion we went back to the state attorney and told him that the date for court is after the date for joining and we want to pay the quilty fine, he said he cannot help us. he said if my sons not there they will put out a warrant for arrest. after my son left I went back to the state attorney and told him my son left because he need to work on his future. and Iam there to pay the quilty fine. he said no my son need to be there I told him he already left and is it posssible to move the court date until I hear from my son again, they could not help me and said they going to put out a warrant for his arrest. I afraid now that if my sons going to come and visit they will arest him. My son know what he did was wrong and he wanted to pay the quilty fine but PE didnt want to help us.

Answer

The State Attorney decides on these issues and has the final say. In this instance the State Attorney is correct, the results of the blood to determine if your son was over the legal limit or not can only be decided once the results are made available by the State laboratory in Pretoria. This should be a learning curve – drinking and driving can ruin your career because these records are held the offender and it is protocol for any legion, company or state to undertake a criminal clearance record prior to employment.