A judge ruled that a police officer failed to perform standardized field sobriety tests properly and ruled that they could not be considered in determining whether the arrest of a Nichols Law Firm client was proper. “The judge granted our request to exclude the tests of horizontal gaze nystagmus, walk and turn and one leg stand, because they just were not administered properly” said Mike Nichols. Nichols added “the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration has produced research that concluded that the so-called standard field sobriety tests are reliable as an indicator of intoxication only when they are administered in a standardized manner.” |