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

My client was driving in Chicago and rear ended a Chicago Police car with two (2) officers in the vehicle. The officers exited their vehicle and approached my client. They then observed two (2) open bottles of red wine in her vehicle. My client had slurred speech, bloodshot/glassy eyes and a strong odor of alcohol coming from her breath. My client was asked to submit to field sobriety tests in which she failed them all. The officers arrested my client for DUI. During cross examination of the officer we got him to admit that my client had complained of knee and ankle injury. We showed that she could have failed the field sobriety testing because of the physical injury she had rather than the reason being alcohol consumption. The judge agreed with our argument and found my client not guilty of DUI after trial!