How long until a disposition shows up on my record for a DUI? 14 Answers as of December 01, 2011

Yes, the DA still may file charges. They have up to a year after your arrest to do so. An arrest should not be on your record.

The DUI arrest will never go away unless you can be successful in a motion for factual innocence (these are not easy to get) The DA will have up to 1 year to file charges.

They could give you a new court date but it sounds like they do not want to file charges against you. The arrest will show up on your record until it is expunged. You can attempt to expunge your arrest by filing a motion of factual innocence. This is a very hard motion to win though.

For a misdemeanor the prosecution has one year to file charges. It is not uncommon for a DUI to be move to a latter court date that you were told by the police. The DUI will not show up on your record until you are convicted of the DUI. However, the criminal court and the DMV are not the same. The DMV can on its own suspend your license without a conviction in criminal court. To have a chance of the DMV not suspending your license you need to request a DMV hearing within ten days of the alleged violation. This hearing may be with your attorney and may be over the phone.

They have 1 year to file a charge, but on DUI cases they rarely do if they don't right away. The key is are they still investigating? As to your arrest record, it will not show up on your DMV record, but it will be on your criminal record forever unless you can convince the arresting agency or the judge that there is no probable cause to believe that you committed a DUI. That needs to be done by letter to the arresting agency and if they say no, by a motion in court. Better hire an attorney for that if it's important to you.

The prosecutor has 1 year from the date of arrest to file misdemeanor charges. The disposition would show up if there ends up being a conviction.

In THEORY they have one year go charge you for a misdemeanor but it is rare that they dump it and then later charge. They look at the test. Either you were over the legal limit or you were not. Unfortunately when they do not file nothing shows up in your record other than the arrest - no disposition. Let the year run and then you or your lawyer should ask the DA to file a statement with the DOJ that the case was never charged because of insufficient evidence. Then the DA needs to send that to the DOJ in Sacto to clean up your record.

Misdemeanor charges can be filed up to one year from the date of the alleged violation. The arrest will remain on your record. It will take several weeks for your records to be updated to show the decision by the DA to not file the case.

It will always show up as a DUI arrest. The fact is that you were arrested on suspicion of a DUI and no charges were ever filed. Each county maintains their own websites to make that information public and they're all different.

They have a year to file the misdemeanor. They will probably notify you by mail if they decide to file. Maybe they do not have enough evidence or have a problem with what evidence they do have.