An E-N investigation found that from 2009 through 2021, 28 percent of motorists charged with DWI in Bexar County plea-bargained the charge down to an obscure misdemeanor.
an obscure misdemeanor without the social stigma of DWI. As part of the deal, the defendants received probationary sentences.
“We certainly weren’t contemplating when we wrote that we’d be seeing cases with severe injuries getting obstruction,” he said.Equally troubling, he said, was the newspaper’s discovery that 25 percent of DWI defendants granted leniency from 2009-2021 had a blood alcohol concentration of 0.15 or higher, a level often described as “extreme intoxication.”
“That is super-concerning to me,” Henricksen said. “That’s something that we are going to take a hard look at.”
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