Throughout the legal career of an experienced Washington DC DUI lawyer, many clients are represented that have been charged with driving while intoxicated. Even celebrities are not exempt from the consequences of a DUI arrest. A recent example: twenty-two year old Thomas Dekker, the star of Fox's Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles was arrested in October, 2009, after allegedly side swiping a bicyclist while driving drunk.

According to the local sheriff's department lost control of his vehicle and hit a seventeen year-old cyclist. Police caught up with Dekker at approximately 9:20 p.m., and arrested him on suspicion of felony DUI charges and causing personal injury to another person. As a result, he was taken to the county jail and where he was released the next morning after posting $100,000 bail.

This past Monday, the actor pled no contest to a lesser charge of misdemeanor reckless driving. While this allowed him to avoid jail time, Dekker still received two years probation, was ordered to participate in a twelve-hour alcohol education course, and is required to pay a $300 fine. Prosecutors chose to make a deal with him due to insufficient evidence that Dekker was at fault--the cyclist was going the wrong way and ran a stop sign.

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