My client was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in a Tulsa, Oklahoma Court.\u00a0 After filing several winning motions in limine where the government’s case was significantly impaired and the prosecutor realized that my client would likely get a not guilty verdict, the prosecution offered to amend the charge to improper lane change.<\/p>\n
Among the reasons that my client would have likely received a not guilty is that the officer failed to perform two of the\u00a0three regularly administered standardized field sobriety tests.\u00a0 In addition, there was no documentation by the police officer in the police report that the\u00a0client exhibited any signs of impaired physical\u00a0motor skills.<\/p>\n
Generally\u00a0an intoxicated person exhibits signs of intoxication through impaired physical\u00a0motor movements.\u00a0 For example, when a person\u00a0that is under suspicion for DUI steps out of the car for an officer to begin the standardized field sobriety tests the subject sometimes stumbles or leans on the car.\u00a0 All police officers look for this and view it as a sign of intoxication.<\/p>\n
Since the officer did not document any motor skill impairments this was a sign that the client was not\u00a0too intoxicated to drive.\u00a0 Additionally the officer\u00a0did not properly perform the horizontal gaze and nystagmus (HGN) test.\u00a0\u00a0The prosecutor figured this out and offered to amend the DUI to improper lane change. Client plead no contest to the amended\u00a0improper lane change and went home a happy DUI free driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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