Charges: OUI Refusal
Results: NOT GUILTY at Trial
Our out-of-state client faced OUI charges in Maine after a long workday with minimal sleep. He drank three beers, attributing any appearance of intoxication to exhaustion rather than alcohol. Case went to trial on the theory that what the officer observed and mistook for intoxication was actually exhaustion. The client’s credible testimony about his exhausting day resonated with the jury. The officer in this case was experienced but wilted under a lengthy cross-examination that focused on poorly administered and scored field sobriety tests as well as issues that he failed to notate in his report that pointed towards actual innocence and sobriety. The jury delivered a verdict of NOT GUILTY.
