One of the first things that your DUI attorney should do to prepare for your court case is to take any and all appropriate steps to secure the scene and preserve any existing evidence. Once you have contacted a New Jersey DUI Lawyer, he or she will likely request that you go back to the place where the field sobriety tests were done. Furthermore, if at all feasible, the attorney’s investigator should escort you to the scene, and either you or the investigator should take pictures of the area in an effort to “freeze” the scene.
Having photographic evidence of the scene can prove beneficial to your case, because routinely, nearly all police reports will allege that the spot where the field sobriety tests were given was “smooth and level.” However, this is often not true at all. The majority of field sobriety tests are given at the side of the road or on a sidewalk that is often sloped. You, along with the investigator, should also look to see what the lighting was like in the immediate area.
Additionally, your New Jersey DUI lawyer will want to know whether or not you made any phone calls from jail, as these calls are typically made late at night and the person who was called is often sleeping at the time. Accordingly, all or a portion of the call may have been captured by an answering machine or voicemail. If any part of the conversation is on a recorder, you should seek to protect that recording right away. This is important because that recording may prove that your speech was not slurred or garbled in any manner when you made that call.
When this type of evidence is obtainable, it is often quite influential in beating any claims of slurred speech. If you need the services of an experienced New Jersey DUI lawyer, please call Law Office Of Dan Matrafajlo for a free consultation
