hello everyone, i was just given a citation for minor in possession of alcohol at a mall in Georgia. I am 18 years old and the officer handcuffed me and took me to the back where he gave me a breathlyzer test where i blew a 0.066 which was also recorded on the citation. In this case, I was not driving but i had my keys on me so i guess they assumed that i drove to the mall while under the influence. So they sent me down to the local detention center where I was photographed and fingerprinted and detained until my parents came to pay the bond. I am not sure how i should take on this case. Will the court count this as DUI or simply MIP as it says on the citation? I am currently applying for colleges and I hope that I can get the arrest record expunged and the misdemeanor off of my record. The link below contains all the information i have found so far and I hope that I can find some more help here. Thanks!
http://www.mitnicklaw.com/PracticeAreas/Minor-in-Possession.asp
edit: some more information, this is my first citation involving alcohol in any form but I did have a shop lifting incident the previous summer when I was still 17 which I have to go to court for in January. I have already hired a lawyer to help me keep that misdemeanor off my record. Will the shop lifting incident affect the MIP case at all?
http://www.mitnicklaw.com/PracticeAreas/Minor-in-Possession.asp
edit: some more information, this is my first citation involving alcohol in any form but I did have a shop lifting incident the previous summer when I was still 17 which I have to go to court for in January. I have already hired a lawyer to help me keep that misdemeanor off my record. Will the shop lifting incident affect the MIP case at all?
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