You had some drinks. You were driving home. You got pulled over. You blew over the limit and were placed under arrest for drunk driving. What possible defenses are there? What can a top rated DUI firm do for you now? First, you need to understand that there are potentially dozens of pages of police reports, witness statements, 911 calls in addition to dash camera video taken from the squad car and body camera video taken from the one or more officers at the scene. There will additionally be reports from the chemical test, whether you blew into the intoximeter back at the station or if you had a blood draw. These reports and videos will reveal a tremendous amount of detail about exactly what happened during the stop to form a specific evidentiary picture. But wait, you were driving and over the legal limit. Why do these details matter? The short answer is that both law enforcement officers and the Courts must follow the law that is grounded in the Constitution of the United States. According to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, officers cannot unreasonably detain someone. Furthermore, all arrests to be legal require Two words: probable cause. Without probable cause, that test score showing that you were over .08 disappears from the case. So how do we know if the officer had probable cause? NHTSA. This means the national highway traffic safety administration. This is the government group that wrote the rule book for law enforcement on how they are supposed to investigate and arrest drivers for operating while under the influence. NHTSA created some important clues for intoxication that officers are trained to look for during the three phases of the traffic stop. NHTSA also is the organization that wrote the very detailed rulebook for how the field sobriety tests are to be explained, administered and graded. NHTSA makes it clear that a failure to properly administer the field sobriety tests may completely destroy the value of the results to the point where they can no longer be relied upon in Court. No results can mean no probable cause. No probable cause can mean no case. This may remind you of, when in school, you were solving a math or chemistry question. If you messed up your work, did you get the correct answer? Of course not. It is the same way with these tests and the investigation. If the officer does not follow NHTSA’s strict standards, then NHTSA itself says we may not be able to trust the test’s conclusions. The bottom line: if the officer messed up and failed to follow their own training standards, this may result in a collapse of the case against you, potentially even leading to a dismissal or reduction of the charges. So how do we know if the officer followed the rules in your case? This is where those police reports and videos will give us many of the answers. Your recollection of the night is crucial to assisting in your defense. Lastly, even if the officer did fail to follow the training standards, do you think it will mean much of anything if you were stumbling around hammered? Almost certainly not. It will only matter if you were not impaired and are acting reasonable under the circumstances, regardless of whether you were over or under the .08 limit. Keep this in mind: this discussion is highlighting a single area of possible defenses in a drunk driving case. There are dozens upon dozens of other important issues surrounding whether the stop was legal, the various detainers that the officer used were legal, the informing the accused paperwork was legal, whether blood draw was legal and properly done with the correct people and equipment, among many other issues that could also lead to a dismissal of your OWI charge. I only am talking very briefly about NHTSA because they are some of the best and most proven methods of handling OWI cases here at Wisconsin’s most successful, not to mention largest drunk driving and criminal defense firm. The bottom line, and what I want you to take away from this video is this: these cases and their outcomes hinge on essential details. These details are impossible to find without a high degree of sophisticated and ongoing training and experience. They are also useless without the proper knowledge of how to implement them in the courtroom to maximum effect. Our top rated team of former state prosecutors and dedicated defense attorneys have all gone through the same NHTSA training and passed the same tests that the officer who arrested you did. We additionally have attorneys on staff who have gone through the advanced instructor training and are capable of educating the officers about what they did wrong in your case. Contact our office to learn more about what defenses might be available in your case with a free case consultation. Our friendly team of veteran attorneys will chat with you about your case, what you are facing, the court process, and will do our best to answer your questions.

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First-offense OWI charges in Racine County could include a $150-$300 fine, up to 9 months licenses revocation and other penalties, depending on the situation. A Caledonia-area attorney could discuss OWI defense options during a free consultation.

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