Only one step needed contact AA.
I have zero tolerance for alcoholics. Especially ones that get behind a wheel.
Yep. The best thing to do is NOT drink and drive.
I know a person who was prosecuted and convicted of DWI with a .02 BAC.
That's one beer. What do you people want?
We tried prohibition once and it was disastrous. That was with a Constitutional amendment. Now we effectively have it again without having gone through that process.
What do you want?
This article has some excellent advice. Be polite and respectful to the police officer but stand up for your rights. Even if you are stone-cold sober, you should always refuse a field sobriety test or a Breathalyzer. A nervous person could fail a field sobriety test and a Breathalyzer can easily produce a false positive and this would be very difficult to beat in court, especially with so many knee-jerk people prejudiced like you.
By all means, if you're an alcoholic.
What makes you think you had to have had anything to drink in order to make an arrest?
If he asks, you are nuts to say ANYTHING other than “I’ve been advised by counsel not to answer any questions at this time; to refuse a PAS; to refuse a FST.
That means a trip to a police station, where you have to submit to a chemical test, which will show you were stone sober beyond the shadow of a doubt and with witnesses other than the officer that made the stop.
It’s worth it. The don’t need a reason to pull you over. Some cops will try and get you to consent to a search of your car on the spot with the term ‘exigent circumstances’ - “We are going to do it anyway, the question is only a matter of when!!”
To search your car, they still have to have probably cause. If they really want to search it, they HAVE to bring you to the station, and then get a judge to sign a search warrant before they can do it.
All exigent circumstances buys a cop is the means to secure potential evidence before you have the ability to destroy or dispose of it.
It is now ROUTINE for police to set up road blocks to ask for your papers, which is ILLEGAL as hell. They are doing it anyway. It doesn’t meet the ‘reasonable suspicion’ test. Being out after 10PM is not enough justification to stop you for any reason whatsoever.
They are doing it anyway.
You can be a tea-totaller and blow a 0.00 and still get arrested for DUI.
The government is not your friend.
I joined AA once, and I don't even drink - I needed the stage time.
What if you aren't an alcoholic? What if you aren't intoxicated? Are you suggesting that everyone who gets pulled over by a cop for DUI is guilty? Or that everyone who gets pulled over for DUI is alcoholic?
These are valuable tips for innocent drivers and especially valuable for drivers who have had a reasonable amount to drink and aren't intoxicated.