Category Archives: Field Sobriety Test

What do Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST) prove about whether someone is drunk? Maybe Nothing.

Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFST) are better known by the public as roadside tests given to people pulled over for suspicion of drunk driving.  They include the walk and turn, one leg stand, etc.  Law enforcement use them to establish probable cause for arrest and prosecutors attempt to use them as evidence to prove guilt [...]

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WATCH ACTUAL VIDEO OF FIELD SOBREITY TESTS AND COMPARE TO POLICE REPORT

I have previously posted about how most police officers have drivers failing Field Sobriety Tests (FST) regardless of how a driver performs.  Click here to watch this video from a mounted camera of an officer administering the FST.  Now click here and read the police report filed.  It is amazing.  The officer actually has the [...]

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