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Winning a DUI Case

With the right Florida drunk driving attorney on your side, you can win a DUI case. A skilled DUI defense lawyer has a multitude of successful defenses that can help you clear your name. Breath tests can be challenged and are unreliable. Wind and road conditions can effect roadside sobriety tests. Police lights have been shown to cause dizziness, and prescription medications can mimic the symptoms of drunkenness. These are just a few of the cards a qualified DUI defense attorney can play in your favor.

More specific wininng DUI defense strategies can include:

  • Blood Alcohol Defense - BAC, Blood Alcohol Concentration is the percentage of alcohol in a person's blood. BAC level is used to define legal intoxication. In Florida anyone with a BAC of 0.08 or more is considered legally drunk. BAC can be determined by a blood or urine test. These results may be harder for your DUI defense attorney to dispute. However most BAC levels in DUI arrests are obtained through a breathalyzer. These devices are notably fallible and inaccurate. They are often not maintained properly, and law enforcement agencies rarely if ever allow outside entities to test the accuracy of these devices. This serves as a basis for a strong defense for the skilled drunk driving lawyer. Your DUI attorney will subpoena police records to determine the exact operation of the breath test machine and see if it was used properly and it's recommended maintenance and calibration standard adhered to. Your DUI lawyer will likely also bring in expert testimony that the particular Breathalyzer the arresting officer used has a history of malfunctioning and giving false readings. Another defense option used by winning DUI defense lawyers is to find out if your original physical breath tests were not preserved as evidence. If they were not; it does not allow for independent testing later. If this is the case your DUI attorney can mount a persuasive argument that there is no way to know if the breath machine that was used was accurate, if your breath samples cannot be independently tested.
  • Field Sobriety Test Defense - When stopped for a suspected DUI, the officer may ask you to perform a series of field sobriety tests. These are tasks designed to test your level of impairment. However field sobriety tests are notoriously subjective. Many things can influence a person's ability to perform the typical tests such as walking a straight line, balancing on one foot, or reciting the alphabet backwards. Your DUI Attorney will point out the many conditions such as lack of sleep to medical disorders that can cause a person to perform badly on such tests. Your DUI attorney will create reasonable doubt in the jury by cross-examining the arresting officer in detail to find out if he asked you if you had any physical conditions, or if there were particular circumstances that would hinder your performance of the tests. A good DUI lawyer will likely indicate to the members of the jury that many of them might have similar difficulties performing the tests, even under "normal" conditions. As you read this, perfectly sober, see if you can recite the alphabet backwards - you would be surprised by how many jury members couldn't do it either!