SomeCalifGuy
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Caifornia
Like most; i'll try to stick to the important thing in my case.
Downtown Fullerton is filled with bars, i left one called "Heros" at about 12:30am. As i drive down a one-way alley, look both ways before entering the street... no one is around. So i enter the street. As soon as i look in my rear-view mirror; the easily recognizable headlights of a crown victoria(police car) are right on my tail as-if i cut him off.
he proceded to enter the lane to the left of me and drive past me when i was rolling down my window to smoke a cig. I stopped the window at about half way and she drove past me, made an illegal uturn and pulled me over all within less than a half mile to a mile from the bar ( i have yet to go back to measure distance and take pictures ).
He asked for my licence and gave his reason for pulling me over as follows: it was suspicious that i rolled my window down half way as he drove by. I tried to go along with what the guy wanted. eventually he starts calling me a liar and two more officers show up. I take an on slot of field sobrioty tests and passed about 70%.
Eventually i agreed to take the breathtests and blew a .17 also got cuffed and taken to the station for the blood test.
The only part of the case i think i may have is that there was no reason for him to pull me over in the first place. From what i understand, i need to get ahold of the police report to see if i really have any case against him. I also understand that if i can not convince the judge that i should have never been pulled over in the first place, then my whole case will pretty much go to hell.
I am curious if i should risk going into court with the Public Defender and take what is coming to me. Or if i should spend a couple grand on a lawry to represent me in hopes that i can get the DUI charges dropped for entrapment or no reasonable cause to pull me over.
What do you think?!?
Sincerely,
SomeCalifGuy
Like most; i'll try to stick to the important thing in my case.
Downtown Fullerton is filled with bars, i left one called "Heros" at about 12:30am. As i drive down a one-way alley, look both ways before entering the street... no one is around. So i enter the street. As soon as i look in my rear-view mirror; the easily recognizable headlights of a crown victoria(police car) are right on my tail as-if i cut him off.
he proceded to enter the lane to the left of me and drive past me when i was rolling down my window to smoke a cig. I stopped the window at about half way and she drove past me, made an illegal uturn and pulled me over all within less than a half mile to a mile from the bar ( i have yet to go back to measure distance and take pictures ).
He asked for my licence and gave his reason for pulling me over as follows: it was suspicious that i rolled my window down half way as he drove by. I tried to go along with what the guy wanted. eventually he starts calling me a liar and two more officers show up. I take an on slot of field sobrioty tests and passed about 70%.
Eventually i agreed to take the breathtests and blew a .17 also got cuffed and taken to the station for the blood test.
The only part of the case i think i may have is that there was no reason for him to pull me over in the first place. From what i understand, i need to get ahold of the police report to see if i really have any case against him. I also understand that if i can not convince the judge that i should have never been pulled over in the first place, then my whole case will pretty much go to hell.
I am curious if i should risk going into court with the Public Defender and take what is coming to me. Or if i should spend a couple grand on a lawry to represent me in hopes that i can get the DUI charges dropped for entrapment or no reasonable cause to pull me over.
What do you think?!?
Sincerely,
SomeCalifGuy