Should I take the DUI field sobriety test?

the field sobriety tests are really simply a series of tests of balance and coordination such as the walk the line the finger to nose the nystagmus test which is a fancy scientific term for a test where the officer runs a pencil back and forth in front of your eyes there are a lot of different tests and he'll ask you to take oh three to five of these tests and the reason I would suggest to you that you decline is again you don't have any legal obligation to do it and you should know that they're very difficult to pass if you're stone sober the average person has a lot of difficulty passing these tests because consider the circumstances you're doing this probably late at night on the side of a road on a slope gravelly surface perhaps with cars traveling by you at speed hitting you with wind waves strobe lights from the top of the police car a man standing there in front of you with a gun and a baton you are extremely nervous you're upset you're frightened and you've never done this before so you have difficulty understanding the directions and have difficulty doing it correctly even if again you're stone sober so they're difficult to pass secondly he won't best if the officer decides to arrest you and frankly he decided that morning shortly after he pulled you over and talked to you through the window if he arrests you you will find that no matter what you did you failed in his subjective opinion you failed those tests he is not going to write an arrest report after arresting you and say that you passed

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Published: Wed Sep 08 2010