BASIC FACTS: Driver crashed into a mailbox on Route 3.  The mailbox was protruding from his windshield when the police arrived.  The officer alleged that the driver slurred his words and was unsteady on his feet.  The driver denied drinking but told the officer he was taking methadone and painkillers.  The driver was unable to locate his driver’s license, but was able to find his registration.

The officer asked the driver to take field sobriety tests.  The driver told the officer that he had eye problems, a bad hip and a bad back.  The officer persisted in requesting the defendant to take field sobriety tests, and the defendant agreed to take the field sobriety tests.  The officer claimed that the defendant had to “lean on his car for balance” and that the driver swayed from front to back and side to side while he was standing.  The driver performed an unusual battery of roadside gymnastics:  the “follow-the-pen test”, a “stand to balance test”, a “finger to nose to nose test” and a “finger count test”.  The officer eventually arrested the driver and charged him with DWI.

At the police station, the defendant refused to submit to a blood test.

DEFENSE:     Actual innocence.  Because there was conflicting evidence that could lead to either a conclusion that the defendant was sober or that the defendant was impaired by drugs, and because the defendant wisely chose not to submit to any blood testing, this driver was found NOT GUILTY” after trial.

RESULT:       NOT GUILTY!!!

Attorney Stevens thanks God for this successful defense!!!