Click the play video button above to learn more about field sobriety tests directly from Denver's premier DUI Defense lawyer, Christopher Cessna.
Attorney Chris Cessna speaks about the roadside tests you may be asked to take if stopped for DUI.
If you have been pulled over for a drinking and driving offense, the officer is probably going to ask you to step out of your vehicle and submit to what is known as a standard field sobriety test. These tests some people think of the roadside test or they think of as the balance test and many people believe that if they don’t do well on these tests their case is lost. Nothing can be farther from the truth. In fact, as a certified instructor in these test, these standardized field sobriety tests, I can assure you that it is the officer that will be judged on how he or she administered these tests, on how he or she interpreted these tests. Many of the times, the officers do not do these correctly and that evidence can be thrown out of court and those tests will not count against you.