Wake County police officers routinely use three Standardized Field Sobriety Tests (SFSTs) to measure impairment in individuals suspected of driving while impaired. The three tests are: Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test (HGN), which purportedly measures impairment by revealing “jerkiness” in eye movement while the eyes track an object Walk-and-Turn test (WAT) One-Leg-Stand (OLS) The results of these tests, as reported...
Continue ReadingIn Raleigh and elsewhere in North Carolina, if you are stopped while driving your vehicle and asked to perform any field sobriety tests to test for impairment, you are fully within your rights to simply decline. If you are suspected of a DWI, you are not required to recite the alphabet from the middle, or count backwards, or follow...
Continue ReadingIn North Carolina, against all good sense, you can be charged and convicted of DWI — driving while impaired — while riding your bike. Your common sense might lead you to think that criminalizing the far safer option of riding a bike after consuming alcohol would be encouraged, when the alternative is operating an automobile, but in North Carolina,...
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