“ Oh yeah, never take the field sobriety tests. ”
Back in my rowdy days I passed many field sobriety tests.
The key is when they use the pen to check your vision. They say to watch the pen tip as they move it left to right and watch how your eyeball reacts when the pen goes out of your range of rotation. Thing is they don’t know where your range of rotation stops. If you have been drinking and watch the pen until it goes out of sight your eyeball flutters. But, if you stop your eyes rotation just before it reaches the furthest left or right, your eye ball does not flutter. Takes some practice but easily done with drinking friends.
Hat tip-to LEO buddy who taught me this.
What BS. Cops trying to go neurological exams. Do you really think that they can do this properly? Are the eyeball movements actually recorded by video? So we’re going to take the cops word it’s anything they say it is and you’re guilty, This is more evidence fraud and should not be used in court because it’s unverifable.
Best you can do is video evidence of gait, speech possibly some hand coordination tests as a more reliable indicator impaired driving
What is probably needed is more standardization in these tests comparing to normal controls that can be demonstrated as video evidence in court.
Even blood tests are not necessarily accurate because of tolerance which can occur with alcohol but other substances such as opioid a and benzodiazepines which can be obtained by prescription.