#InCourt Today

  • K. Lawson Wellington,
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DUI (Refusal) trial. “Show me the video*.” Defense request for continuance granted. Today’s DC DUI Lawyer Tip: REFUSE all field sobriety tests – HGN/pen or flashlight test, Walk & Turn and One-Legged Stand. These are designed to gather evidence to use against you in a DUI prosecution. There is ZERO negative consequence to your driving  … Read more

US Supreme Court To Revise DUI Law; Considers Criminalizing Refusal Of Taking Tests

  • K. Lawson Wellington,
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My advice today, notwithstanding this ruling, would still be to REFUSE the breath, urine or blood tests at the station. This especially so if one has, as is your right, refused the standard field sobriety tests at the traffic stop in the street. [It would beg the question, what would have been the legal basis  … Read more