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Martin County, Florida DUI Wrongful Death: What the Criminal Conviction Means for Your Family’s Civil Case If you are reading this, you have already been through the criminal process. You sat in a courtroom in Martin County and watched the person who drove drunk and killed your husband, your wife, your father, your partner get sentenced. You may have stood up and spoken — and if you did, you showed more courage than most people will ever summon in a lifetime. The sentencing hearing closed one chapter. But the civil system is a completely separate fight, and nobody in the criminal courtroom told you what comes next. We are Attorney911. We handle wrongful death claims and DUI fatality cases. What we do in a case like this is different from what the criminal prosecutor did. The prosecutor’s job was to prove the driver was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt and ask the judge for a sentence. Our job is to find every dollar that can make your family whole — and the first thing you need to understand is that those are two different jobs with two different deadlines, two different standards of proof, and two different targets. The single…