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Jackson is the capital city of Mississippi. The statewide Mississippi Freedom Trail runs through the city, encompassing a number of historic sites that were significant in the civil rights movement. These include the Medgar Evers Home Museum and the landmark Mississippi State Capitol building. In leafy LeFleur’s Bluff State Park, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science includes an aquarium and nature trails.
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Jackson
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Jackson, MS, USA
If Asked to Take a Field Sobriety Examination What Do I Do?
Attorney Franks: You have a number of options. You're not required to do a field soberness test and that isn't the test they are taking a look at for a refusal. If you reject the big Intoxilyzer equipment at the police station they can write up a rejection charge.
As a Criminal Justice Attorney my advice is don't do a field soberness examination because they're created for individuals to fail and are really complicated. I had a police officer do it on me as I needed to know what my customers were going through. I did not pass the roadside soberness test and also I was sober. I constantly inform clients do not do a field sobriety examination. It simply gives them ammo and it almost never assists my clients.
Lets state I have consented to it and they ask me to follow an item with my eyes. What are they trying to find?
Attorney Franks: The examination they're executing is the horizontal gaze nystagmus. They're looking for wiggling of the eyes. If somebody's on depressants there can be an involuntary eye movement which doesn't necessarily mean booze is present. But booze is a depressant.
Some policemen will certainly utilize their finger. That's getting involved in more drug associated problems in contrast to alcohol. Those police officers need to have certain qualifications for those examinations to be legitimate.
What takes place if I reject to take the examination?
Attorney Franks: Probably they will have you stand outside either at the front or rear of your car or by the police car. They'll supply you that test numerous times. Generally an officer wont offer once and then throw you in the back of the police car. They need to verify impairment past a reasonable doubt and the field soberness examination is a device.
Officers carry around portable breathalyzers in the back of their police car. If you decline there are no charges. Nevertheless you'll likely be taken to jail. At the prison you'll be provided the alternative to blow in an Intoxilyzer. Till you reject to blow in an Intoxilyzer you will not be written up with a DUI rejection. If you are written up with a DUI refusal then you would have excellent premises to submit an application for breath examination rejection hearing.
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