What not to do on a field sobriety test.

October 13, 2009 by Zale.

An officer pulls over soon to be DUI defendant.  The officer asks the soon to be DUI defendant to do some standard field sobriety tests.  Obviously at the “top of his/her game” the soon to be DUI defendant says, “sure, if you’ll do them with me.”  The questioning officer declines off handed offer, but the officer’s partner, who has been watching up to this point, gladly accepts the offer.  The officer’s partner completes the tests perfectly while the very soon to be DUI defendant falls all over his/herself.  Of course, all of this is caught on the officer’s dashboard camera.

So, whether you comply or not with an officer’s request to do a field sobriety test is up to you, but please, don’t ask an officer to serve as a bench mark on how the test should be completed, unless you know FOR A FACT that the other officer is drunker than you are.

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