Everett Lynnwood Snohomish County DUI Attorney: The value of the video Part II
Videos in police cars have great value. Recently I was watching a video of a Trooper in Snohomish County who has a good reputation and knows the DUI arena very well. In terms of knowledge there can be no debate, he's good.
However, watching the video raised a few concerns. The first is that when he advised the driver of the "voluntary" field sobriety tests the word "voluntary" was undecipherable. I replayed the video several times and every word was clear and precise but "voluntary" could not be heard – it was mumbled. Accident or not, the driver could not have known the FSTs were voluntary.
The second serious issue I had was that the FST instructions were read so fast that I could barely keep up, and I'm a certified instructor for SFSTs and read them every day. Certainly the driver couldn't understand them then, right? So why were the instructions read at a speed twice that of the Trooper's regular speech? Interesting…
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