Nothing sets your nerves into overdrive quite the way the sound of sirens and a glimpse of flashing lights in the rearview mirror can. It doesn’t matter what time of day or how closely you’re following the rules of the road, you know whoever is operating those lights has an important job to do, and you need to react quickly and correctly by getting out of their way, or worse, pulling over to find out what you did wrong. Even knowing where and how to pull over can be overwhelming, and by the time the officer gets to the window of your vehicle you’ve run through all sorts of scenarios in your mind: “was I driving too fast? Did I forget to signal when I switched lanes? Do I have a taillight out? Did I pull over fast enough?” But the very last thing you wanted to hear from the officer’s mouth, because everything will be downhill from there, is: “have you had anything to drink tonight?”

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (or SFSTs) are the tests that officers give to drivers on the side of the road when they are trying to determine if you are too drunk to drive, and they are highly skewed for failure. If you’re a little overweight, a little older, have some medical conditions, or are just too nervous to listen to instructions properly, you’re probably going to end up in handcuffs. Ask our lead attorney at DWISTL.com, he knows from experience. He had his own DWI arrest in 2009 that was proven under the law to be skewed and wrongful when a jury found him innocent. That’s why, despite having a number of other important roles, he’s still out here leading a team of attorneys whose sole purpose is to fight DWIs.