eye95
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eye95
what would you suggest to a person that is SUSPECTED of DUI?
CCJ
I am not a lawyer either. Since I don't ever intend to be DUI, I can only tell you what I would do if pulled over.
First, I will assume that I have done something wrong that I am not aware (or was speeding), so I am going to start from the position that this is almost surely a lawful detention. I will pull over, roll down the window, get my license, insurance, and registration and have them already in my hands when the officer arrives at my door. My hands will be on the steering wheel with the documents in full sight. If he asks me for them, I will hand them to him. If he asks me to exit the vehicle, I will do so, after rolling up the window, locking the door, and tossing the keys inside. I will shut the now-locked door once outside the vehicle.
I have never been asked to exit the vehicle, but have done everything else I mention in this post. Although I have been stopped several times for speeding, I have never, ever gotten a ticket.
On only one occasion, an officer has inappropriately accused me of doing something I did not do. He accused me of doing 80 in a 65. That was false, and I had the GPS recording to prove it was false. (I think I was doing 65 in a 50, but would not say so. I only insisted repeatedly, without mentioning the GPS recording, that I was not going 80.) The deputy gave me a written warning. When I got home, I called his sergeant and informed him of the GPS recording. I alerted him that, had the ticket been written, I would have gone to court and proved the deputy a liar. That would make all future testimony by this deputy automatically suspect.
It is well that the police realize that their actions no longer go unrecorded in some fashion. The days of minority of rogue officers being able to lie at will are over.