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Articles Tagged with Ohio Repeat DUI/OVI

March 15, 2025

Repeat DUI/OVI Compared to First-Offense DUI/OVI in Ohio

DUI-Law-Notebook-300x198 With St. Patrick’s Day around the corner, many people in Ohio will be celebrating at bars. Most of those people will drive home, and some of those people will be arrested for DUI (called ‘OVI’ in Ohio). How many of those arrests will involve drivers who have already been convicted of OVI at least once? How are repeat OVI offenses in Ohio treated differently than first offenses?

April 22, 2023

Repeat DUI /OVI Offenses in Ohio

by Shawn Dominy

DUI-Law-Book-300x200 According to a story by NBC4i, the Ohio State Highway Patrol reports that 30% of DUI arrests (called ‘OVI’ in Ohio’) come from repeat offenders. In Ohio, the mandatory OVI penalties increase with every conviction in ten-years (called the ‘lookback period’). Those penalties include vehicle sanctions, license suspensions, incarceration, and other consequences.