Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (DUI) – LICENSE SUSPENSION REMOVED

The Bartlett Police Department observed my client’s vehicle cross over the center lane into oncoming traffic. The officer stopped my client for her traffic infractions. He then smelled a strong odor of alcohol on her breath, observed bloodshot and glassy eyes. My client then admitted to drinking alcohol earlier in the evening. The officer offered the field sobriety tests in which she failed. He performed the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test, Walk and Turn test and the One Leg Stand test. The officer then arrested my client for DUI. At the police station she refused the breath test. Because she refused, her license was to be suspended for one (1) year. My office conducted a hearing on her license suspension. We cross examined the officer on injuries that my client claimed she suffered at the time of the field sobriety testing. We got the officer to admit that her injuries could have caused her results on the field sobriety tests to suffer. We proved to the judge that the officer did not have probable cause to arrest her for DUI. The judge agreed with our office and removed her one (1) year suspension.