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Police Training
DUI Detection and Standardized Field Sobriety Testing
In October of 2019 Attorney Kelly received police training certifying him as a Standard Field Sobriety Test Practitioner. It is important to know what kinds of field tests are administered in DUI cases and how to refute them in Court.
Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement
Attorney Michael P. Kelly recently completed Advanced Roadside Impairment Detection Training. Also known as ARIDE, this is the training police officers receive to detect what they suspect is impairment caused by drugs, rather than alcohol. This is a two day, sixteen hour course offered to Troopers who have already completed their field sobriety training. It is important that your DUI lawyer is familiar with the ways the Commonwealth tries to prove impairment. As far as we are concerned, at M. P. Kelly Law, the best way to do that is to actually attend and complete the same training as the police.
Attorney Kelly recently received training that qualifies him as a Standard Field Sobriety Instructor. This allows him to actually train police officers in how to detect DUI impaired drivers, perform standard field sobriety tests, write police reports and testify in court. It is extremely important that your DUI Attorney understand these concepts. Attorney Kelly can actually teach them, which translates to excellent cross examination if they are done incorrectly.
Alcohol Workshop
During The Instructor Course for Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, Attorney Kelly and the other attendees were required to dose a person up to a certain Blood Alcohol Concentration over a fixed period of time.
Our subject was to go to a .08. We got her to a .079. It is important to know what amount of alcohol ingestion leads to what blood alcohol concentrations so you can get an idea of what your client should be reading when tested. If it is way off- either the client misremembered or there could potentially be a testing error.
