Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol (DUI) – NOT GUILTY AFTER TRIAL

The Niles Police Department stopped my client for speeding 50 mph in a 35 mph zone. When the officer approached my client in his vehicle, the officer detected a strong odor of alcohol on my client’s breath, red/watery eyes and slurred speech. The defendant admitted to drinking 1/2 bottle of Captain Morgan rum earlier in the evening. My client failed all of the field sobriety testing which included the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test, Walk and Turn test and the One Leg Stand test. My client then submitted to a portable breath test which disclosed a breath alcohol content of .108. I went to trial on this case. Even with all the evidence presented at trial, I was able to confuse the officer on cross-examination to the point where the judge did not even believe what he was saying. I made him contradict his earlier statements and his own police reports. After a lengthy trial, the judge found my client NOT GUILTY of the DUI after trial!