Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Approach a Lawyer Quickly in a DUI Arrest »
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- REQUEST TO TALK TO A LAWYER AS SOON AS POSSIBLE! It’s your right to talk to a lawyer, and to get a lawyer there during interrogation. If you can’t afford an attorney, one will be provided to you.”
If you’re held and taken into detention on DUI – Drunk Driving accusations by San Diego police, your right to talk to an attorney won’t be given until AFTER you present yourself to the required chemical examines performed at the Police Station or any medical facility where you have been transferred. Failure to put forward to a blood or breath alcohol examination, or “chemical test refusal”, once in detention, will impose penalty of an automatic forfeiture which means suspension of your driving license as stated by California’s “implied consent” laws.
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DUI Checks, Asking Reasons is Your Right »
You have the right to argue if there is not any reasonable or serious ground for police checks
Your activities must justify strong reason for suspicion of DUI on road. In a California DUI, the detaining police officer requires to describe and confirm major observations or grounds to take out you over for DUI. 
When evidencing in California DUI Jury Trials, San Diego police officers normally tell they noticed the DUI -DWI suspect racing, driving too tardily, doing dangerous or fickle lane shifts and unlawful or excessively big turns, sharp and jerking breaks, lurching, tailgating, driving the wrong path like opposite on one way streets or in opposing traffic lanes, cutting, lane straddling, and making narrow escapes to serious accidents or any other road risk which can probably cause for the traffic stop.
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Basic Information about DUI Evidence. »
Evidence in a drunk driving case generally falls into several categories.
Driving.
This is usually what the police see first. It may involve weaving, lane straddling or erratic driving. Where you aware that there are 20 different driving patterns recognized by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration which could be possible indicators of intoxication? Speeding is not one of these.
Appearance / Behavior.
These may include an odor of alcohol on the breath, bloodshot eyes, thick and/or slurred speech, flushed face, fumbling with a wallet to get the driver’s license, unsteady gait, leaning on the car for support, difficulty following directions, etc. Some of these are odor of alcohol, bloodshot eyes and slurred speech which are encountered so often that some officers, trained to expect them, will include them in their arrest reports even if they are not actually present.
Field Sobriety Tests.
These may include walk-and-turn, one-leg-stand, modified position of attention (Rhomberg), alphabet, horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) (following the pen), fingers-to-thumb, hand pat, roadside breath test.
Statements You Make.
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