People find criminal law quite confusing. The confusion is understandable given how each state has its own rules and laws. Even if someone knows the laws here in Hawaii, the laws frequently change. Just this summer, for example, the penalties for driving under the influence (DUI) offenders increased substantially.
Lawmakers, worried that too many people kept getting behind the wheel again and again while impaired, passed a new law that went into effect on July 1, 2019, officially increasing the penalties for DUI offenders. However, it isn't just the changing nature of the legal system that leaves people confused. Rather, the definitions of DUI and what exactly the law covers also seem to confuse many people.