1.   It was his first DUI offense.

2.   The penalty for a first offense is a fine.

3.   He got a six-year jail sentence, a harsh punishment for a first offense.

4.   The judge favors non-custodial sentences for most first offenses.

5.   Penalties for a first offense range from fines to jail time.

6.   Also unresolved was an IOC proposal to require a minimum two-year ban for a first offense.

7.   And finally, the bill would expand the authority of the U.S. Postal Service to stop misleading or fraudulent mailings and to impose tougher penalties for first time offenses.

8.   Asking Brady to create the offense first against this smothering defense is asking for trouble.

9.   Before the felony driving-under-suspension law went into effect, the first offense for driving with a suspended license was a second-degree misdemeanor.

10.   Bledsoe and the first offense are expected to play about three quarters, their most action to this point.