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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

JUDGE FINDS THAT OFFICER DID NOT PERFORM FIELD SOBRIETY TESTS PROPERLY

By Michael Nichols

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.”

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Mike Nichols is a national leader in drunk driving defense. He is a member of the Forensic Committee and Michigan delegate to the National College for DUI Defense. He is also a Sustaining Member of the College. Nichols is also a founding member of the Michigan Association of OWI Attorneys; a member of the American Chemical Society; an associate member of he American Academy of Forensic Science, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law and OWI Law and Practice at Cooley Law School. He is also author of the West OWI Practice book and several chapters in other books on science and the law.

Mike Nichols is recognized by his peers in Michigan as a “SuperLawyer” in DUI/Criminal Defense. Nichols has also been asked to speak at conferences by groups such as the NCDD; Various Bar Associations in other states.