Josiahm1970
Junior Member
Modesto, California.
I run a stop sign and was speeding 15 over or so, get pulled over. The officer pulls me out of the truck almost immediately, and everyone else as well and sits us on the curb.
I tell him I picked up the 3 occupants from another DUI in a nearby town, where they administered a breathalyzer test on me to be sure I was eligible to take them home. They were all inherently intoxicated.
He administers a test on 2 of the occupants. One girl had a bench warrant for a missed court date and was 20 years old. They did NOT administer a breath test on her NOR me. I told him I did not have anything to drink.
The officer asks for my license and registration and whether or not he can get it out of the glove box, I clearly said in front of everyone and hopefully the camera on the car 'no I would like to get it myself'. He gets flustered and demands me to sit down and goes and gets it out anyway, observing the interior once he opened the doors.
He asked to search the vehicle as he saw a sweater slightly over a box of bud light in the window. I declined respectfully.
They were going to let me go with the stop sign ticket, and in the middle of that they backpedal and decide to administer the breath test. I respectfully decline. He says, "You do not smell like alcohol whatsoever as your friends do". I said I will not take any test, turn around and put my hands behind my back and ask to be taken straight to jail. He calls in the Sargeant, who is all fired up. He goes up to the truck, says he smells alcohol in the truck and opens the doors finding a bottle of alcohol.
He then tells me I will have to take a blood test, one or the other and that I have no choice. I was baffled, I thought I could decline everything with a stiffer penalty, so I ask him to say it clearly, "Sir, are you saying I have no choice whatsoever". He responds "that is correct". As far as I know I do not have to take the blood test. They held me down in the hospital forcefully withdrawing blood.
Still awaiting those results. How can I find out? More importantly, will a good lawyer have a chance of getting this case dropped?
I run a stop sign and was speeding 15 over or so, get pulled over. The officer pulls me out of the truck almost immediately, and everyone else as well and sits us on the curb.
I tell him I picked up the 3 occupants from another DUI in a nearby town, where they administered a breathalyzer test on me to be sure I was eligible to take them home. They were all inherently intoxicated.
He administers a test on 2 of the occupants. One girl had a bench warrant for a missed court date and was 20 years old. They did NOT administer a breath test on her NOR me. I told him I did not have anything to drink.
The officer asks for my license and registration and whether or not he can get it out of the glove box, I clearly said in front of everyone and hopefully the camera on the car 'no I would like to get it myself'. He gets flustered and demands me to sit down and goes and gets it out anyway, observing the interior once he opened the doors.
He asked to search the vehicle as he saw a sweater slightly over a box of bud light in the window. I declined respectfully.
They were going to let me go with the stop sign ticket, and in the middle of that they backpedal and decide to administer the breath test. I respectfully decline. He says, "You do not smell like alcohol whatsoever as your friends do". I said I will not take any test, turn around and put my hands behind my back and ask to be taken straight to jail. He calls in the Sargeant, who is all fired up. He goes up to the truck, says he smells alcohol in the truck and opens the doors finding a bottle of alcohol.
He then tells me I will have to take a blood test, one or the other and that I have no choice. I was baffled, I thought I could decline everything with a stiffer penalty, so I ask him to say it clearly, "Sir, are you saying I have no choice whatsoever". He responds "that is correct". As far as I know I do not have to take the blood test. They held me down in the hospital forcefully withdrawing blood.
Still awaiting those results. How can I find out? More importantly, will a good lawyer have a chance of getting this case dropped?
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