Driving Under the Influence of Cannabis (DUI) – Not Guilty of all Charges after Trial

My client was found passed out in the drivers seat of his vehicle in the intersection of Cermak and Mannheim Road in Westchester, IL. A Westchester police officer tried numerous times banging on my clients driver’s side window. When my client eventually awoke, he took his foot off of the brake and hit the officer’s squad car! The officer found a smoking pipe in his lap with cannabis residue. He admitted to drinking alcohol has well. The officer conducted field sobriety tests on my client in which he failed. He the officer said he failed the HGN (horizontal gaze nystagmus) test, walk and turn test and the one leg stand test. The officer arrested my client for DUI based upon cannabis and a combination of cannabis and alcohol. This was a case my client needed to win so he hired my office for trial. At trial, I cross-examined the officer and showed that his testimony was different than the reports he wrote. This is called impeachment. This officer was so impeached by my questions that the judge found my client not guilty of all charges. He walked away free and clear of all charges!