I am attending a cutting edge seminar tomorrow on Tennessee’s breath test machine . Virginia DUI lawyer Michael Tillotson is sponsoring the DUI defense training session. During the seminar , I will be posting updates. You can follow them at www.twittter.com/RobMcKinney I will be posting some articles here next week.
The Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus Test in Tennessee
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Posted in DUI, Field Sobriety Tests
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In this post , i continue to discuss the Metro Nashville Police Department’s DUI testing report. The first field sobriety test given is usually the horizontal gaze nystagmus test. Laboratory research by the Southern California Research Institute indicates the HGN test is 77 % accurate according to the 2006 NHTSA manual in determining…
Independant Blood Tests in DUI Cases
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Posted in DUI
The DUI Unit in Nashville, Tennessee uses a breath alcohol test in most DUI arrests .The question is " Do you have a right to an independent blood alcohol test." .Tennessee Code Annotated 55-10-4109(e) provides that a person tested for blood alcohol "shall be entitled to have an additional sample of blood or urine procured and…