Do you think I’ll get a chance at getting my DWI charge thrown out, with or without
a lawyer? I was drinking early that night about, 2 drinks. I know my limit, I know the law. Under 0.08 and I had no reason to believe I was over 0.08 so I assumed It was safe to drive. I was driving home when I decided to take a short cut. A cop was parked on the opposite side of the street from several clubs/bars. I decided to turn on the street opposite to where he was parked instead of going straight since I already had my signals on when I realized there was a cop parked there so I didn’t want to be bait. I knew as I was turning the cop saw me, I knew I had every possibility of getting pulled over so I obeyed the law, so that I wouldn’t give him a petty reason to pull me over. He didn’t follow me to see if I was breaking any laws, he caught up to me at a stop sign and turned his lights on. I put my car in park assuming he was after me. He got out and said “that he would catch me at the stop sign.“ He asked for my license, as I was handing him my license he told me that he was on the look out for someone. IMO he was not telling the truth because of the way he kept described me and my vehicle. He made it sound like he was only slightly off. He asked where I was coming from, I really didn't want to tell him, in order to avoid the question about if I had been drinking. I kept going on about him getting the description completely wrong, and bluntly said that I though he was lying.. and that next time he should get the description right unless he was color blind. (I wasn’t giving him “attitude,” I sort of found it funny) He asked If I had been drinking. I told him the truth. He ran a couple of tests on me. I ended up doing the test no problem, I got back in my car and he ran the eye test on me about 5 times before he went back to his car bought out a breathalyser. I’m not sure how much I blew roadside but back at the station which is not more then 5 mins away I blew somewhere around a 0.039. Which probably makes it impossible for me to be over the 0.08 mark?
I’m a very realistic person. I have nothing against him but realistically speaking I think that this his intentions were not the same for pulling me over as he says it was. His probable cause was what was radioed to him that night, which, if I had the chanced to look though what really happened that night on his shift, It would be recoded somewhere and IMO there would be nothing recoded in that regard about a suspicious vehicle/person at the time he was pulling me over.
I feel that what he did was a rookie move, a boring night mixed with a little bit of discrimination (the fact that im young, out at 2am on a Saturday night) is what gave him a reason pull me over.
I guess my question is since this feels so petty I really don’t feel like spending $$$'s on a lawyer so what are the chances I could get this DWI thrown out by representing myself?
Since when Is being below 0.08, with no probable cause breaking the law?
a lawyer? I was drinking early that night about, 2 drinks. I know my limit, I know the law. Under 0.08 and I had no reason to believe I was over 0.08 so I assumed It was safe to drive. I was driving home when I decided to take a short cut. A cop was parked on the opposite side of the street from several clubs/bars. I decided to turn on the street opposite to where he was parked instead of going straight since I already had my signals on when I realized there was a cop parked there so I didn’t want to be bait. I knew as I was turning the cop saw me, I knew I had every possibility of getting pulled over so I obeyed the law, so that I wouldn’t give him a petty reason to pull me over. He didn’t follow me to see if I was breaking any laws, he caught up to me at a stop sign and turned his lights on. I put my car in park assuming he was after me. He got out and said “that he would catch me at the stop sign.“ He asked for my license, as I was handing him my license he told me that he was on the look out for someone. IMO he was not telling the truth because of the way he kept described me and my vehicle. He made it sound like he was only slightly off. He asked where I was coming from, I really didn't want to tell him, in order to avoid the question about if I had been drinking. I kept going on about him getting the description completely wrong, and bluntly said that I though he was lying.. and that next time he should get the description right unless he was color blind. (I wasn’t giving him “attitude,” I sort of found it funny) He asked If I had been drinking. I told him the truth. He ran a couple of tests on me. I ended up doing the test no problem, I got back in my car and he ran the eye test on me about 5 times before he went back to his car bought out a breathalyser. I’m not sure how much I blew roadside but back at the station which is not more then 5 mins away I blew somewhere around a 0.039. Which probably makes it impossible for me to be over the 0.08 mark?
I’m a very realistic person. I have nothing against him but realistically speaking I think that this his intentions were not the same for pulling me over as he says it was. His probable cause was what was radioed to him that night, which, if I had the chanced to look though what really happened that night on his shift, It would be recoded somewhere and IMO there would be nothing recoded in that regard about a suspicious vehicle/person at the time he was pulling me over.
I feel that what he did was a rookie move, a boring night mixed with a little bit of discrimination (the fact that im young, out at 2am on a Saturday night) is what gave him a reason pull me over.
I guess my question is since this feels so petty I really don’t feel like spending $$$'s on a lawyer so what are the chances I could get this DWI thrown out by representing myself?
Since when Is being below 0.08, with no probable cause breaking the law?