{"id":1145,"date":"2012-01-16T02:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-16T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/has-anyone-ever-passed-field-sobriety-test\/"},"modified":"2020-10-30T20:48:15","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:48:15","slug":"has-anyone-ever-passed-field-sobriety-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/has-anyone-ever-passed-field-sobriety-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Anyone Ever Passed a Field Sobriety Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>PASSING A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can a driver being investigated for a DUI\u00a0ever &#8220;pass&#8221; a field sobriety test?\u00a0 Once an officer has smelled the odor of\u00a0alcohol on your breath you will generally be arrested and cited for DUI.\u00a0 The key word is &#8220;pass.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The officer\u00a0 who smelled the alcohol on your breath decides whether you did well enough to drive home or whether you will be driven in handcuffs to the local police substation.\u00a0 Everything is under the control of\u00a0the arresting officer.\u00a0\u00a0 Almost every aspect of the Field Sobriety Test is based on their &#8220;opinion.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 Many drivers are told by the \u201carresting\u201d officers that they did well on the Field Sobriety Test only to later read in their police report that the arresting officer described\u00a0how poorly they actually performed.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even had DUI clients tell me that the officer told them that prosecutor would probably dismiss the case.\u00a0 Question:\u00a0 Why would the officer make the arrest in the first place if they knew or believed that their case would later be dismissed?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.southerncaliforniacriminalattorney.com\">Errol Cook, Esq<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(877) 737-2004<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestduifirm.com\">http:\/\/www.bestduifirm.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASSING A FIELD SOBRIETY TEST Can a driver being investigated for a DUI\u00a0ever &#8220;pass&#8221; a field sobriety test?\u00a0 Once an officer has smelled the odor of\u00a0alcohol on your breath you will generally be arrested and cited for DUI.\u00a0 The key word is &#8220;pass.&#8221;\u00a0\u00a0 The officer\u00a0 who smelled the alcohol on your breath decides whether you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california-criminal-law-blog","category-california-dui-law-blog","category-california-traffic-ticket-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markagallagher.com\/socaldefenselawyers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}