Recent Posts in Standard Field Sobriety Tests Category
Posted on Aug 10, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
When an officer is scoring the One Leg Stand Test, the officer is looking for four clues. These four clues are clues of impairment. In other words, the clues are to indicate whether a person does not ...
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Posted on Aug 8, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Obviously, the name of this test speaks for itself. The test requires the suspect to stand on one leg throughout the administration of the test. Another obvious point, while one leg is holding the ...
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Posted on Aug 5, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
When a police officer is administering the Walk and Turn test, there are some key things that an officer must do. If not, then the accuracy of the test is seriously called into question. First, the ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
The Walk and Turn test, the first of the two divided attention tests, consists of the suspect standing in the heel-to-toe fashion with arms at his or her sides while the instructions are being given. ...
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Posted on Aug 3, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
When the police administer the Walk and Turn test, they are attempting to evaluate a person's divided attention. That is, it is generally accepted that driving a car, though on the surface appears ...
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Posted on Aug 2, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Recently we have been addressing the three SFSTs and their use to investigate whether someone is committing the offense of DWI . A few weeks ago, we took an indepth look at the HGN and how it is ...
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Posted on Aug 1, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
As we have previously noted, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ("NHTSA") advocates the use of three Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) to determine whether a motorist ...
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Posted on Jul 26, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Standard Field Sobriety Tests are considered to be one reliable clue of intoxication. In Texas, there are three separate tests that comprise the Standard Field Sobriety Tests administered by the ...
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Posted on Jul 25, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Yesterday , we discussed Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and the non-standard Field Sobriety tests. Begining in 1975, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) began reviewing the ...
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Posted on Jul 14, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Police use the HGN as part of their arsenal to investigate DWIs . They are used throughout the nation and the test is very heavily promulgated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ...
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Posted on Jul 13, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Out of all the Standard Field Sobriety Tests , the HGN is the easiest to fail. No one, but the officer, can see the results. In fact, there is never a video of the person's performance on the HGN. ...
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Posted on Jul 12, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In the DWI context, intoxicants, according to the NHTSA, can increase nystagmus or the amount of involuntary eye-jerking. Alcohol consumption or consumption of other "central nervous system ...
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Posted on Jul 11, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
We have demonstrated previously the tests that are used by police. These are called the Standard Field Sobriety Tests . Click here to see a clip of each test that is administered by the police. In a ...
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Posted on May 4, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Major League Baseball pitcher, Derek Lowe, was charged with DUI and racing. Lowe was arrested after a police officer saw his car racing another car in Georgia. After the police pulled him over, the ...
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Posted on Apr 15, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
In a recently released opinion by the Court of Criminals of Texas they upheld the DWI conviction for a Fort Worth man. The defendant drove his car off the road and then walked away from the car. An ...
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Posted on Apr 12, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
An Arlington man was convicted for the fifth time for DWI . On August 2, 2009, Jose Isabel Lopez ran a stop sign and was pulled over by the police. The officer smelled alcohol on Lopez, observed beer ...
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Posted on Apr 8, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Recently, we posted about an Albany police department spokesman who was arrested for DWI . Detective Miller was a well-known police officer and was very well decorated. As noted previously, he had two ...
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Posted on Apr 7, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
What is the legal definition of intoxication in Texas? The legal definition of intoxication in Texas is: (1) Not having the normal use of mental faculties by reason of the introduction of alcohol, a ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Representative Mark Buesgens was arrested for DWI last September after he drove into a ditch last September. He took the SFSTs and his results were posted on You Tube for the world to see. While ...
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Posted on Mar 23, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Detective Miller, Albany Police, was arrested Friday night for suspicion of DWI. He was driving a department assigned vehicle and was stopped for driving without the headlights on. He failed the SFSTs ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
Police use several tests to investigate whether a potential suspect has committed the offense of DWI . We have consistently argued that the Standard Field Sobriety Tests used in a DWI investigation by ...
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Posted on Mar 18, 2011 By Plano DWI Lawyer
A 60 year old man was arrested for Boating While Intoxicated on Lake Travis in Austin, Texas this past Friday. Rangers with the Lower Colorado River Authority stopped him for a boat inspection and ...
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