A Driving Under the Influence “DUI” Resulting in substantial bodily harm offense in Las Vegas, Nevada, is a felony. It’s essential to have a lawyer in Nevada who has experience with DUIs with serious bodily injury, so you have someone to rigorously defend your case.

In order to be convicted of a DUI Resulting in Substantial Bodily Harm offense, the prosecutor must prove, that you were under the influence while driving and/or being in actual physical control of a motor vehicle, and that your actions while driving were the proximate cause of the substantial bodily harm of another.  Nevada Revised Statute “NRS” 0.060 defines Substantial Bodily Harm as, “Bodily injury which creates a substantial risk of death or which causes serious, permanent disfigurement or protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily member or organ; or prolonged physical pain.” It is important to note, under the statute, “prolonged physical pain” is considered substantial bodily harm. This is important because, if you were to be involved in an accident and were under the influence. But, the people in the other vehicle did not seem seriously injured at the time; the prosecutor could easily upgrade your original charge of a DUI Misdemeanor, to a DUI Resulting in Substantial Bodily Harm Felony, if at a later time the victim complains of prolonged physical pain (for example, chronic back pain or migraines).