Also, you'll only have 20 minutes to call your attorney for advice; after that, you can't refuse the test without losing your license. At the appeal of your revocation an attorney can attack a very narrow set of issues with regard to your refusal. The number of these kind of appeals that are won is not very high.

If you have never had a DWI before it is almost always in your best interest to take the test. If your B.A.C does test over point zero eight in Missouri or point zero eight in Kansas you will lose your license for 30 days followed by a limited driving privilege for 60 days upon the filing of an SR-22, in Missouri, or for 330 days in Kansas, but no SR-22 is required in Kansas.

If you have been stopped for a DUI before in Missouri and had your license suspended for 90 days, (30 days of no driving at all followed by 60 days restricted driving) because of having a B.A.C. in excess of point zero eight (.08) (1.0 prior to September 30th, 2001 or 1.3 prior to July 1, 1992, ) then if you take the test and have a B.A.C. in excess of point zero eight you will lose your license for an entire year anyway and there is no chance for a hardship.

So if you have lost your license for 30 days once before and you have never refused a breath test before, you may want to refuse and take the one year revocation since at the end of the first 90 days you will be eligible for a hardship license.

If, however, you have ever refused a breath test before, the second refusal also results in a year's revocation, without the possibility of a hardship license. In the state of Kansas there are no hardship licenses.