SUCR2025***

Our client was pulled over by local police in a small town. They were driving with an expired tag. When the officer arrived at the driver’s side window, he claimed that he smelled marijuana and alcohol all throughout the car and on the driver’s breath. Our client admitted to smoking, but mentioned that he had smoked almost 5 to 6 hours ago. The officer performed a DUI breath test. The client blew .000. He had not been drinking! The officer was wrong about smelling alcohol on the client’s breath. The officer then carried on with a search of the car with K9 assistance. No drugs. No alcohol. No bongs. Nothing was found. The officer went as far as even cutting the client’s seats. Still nothing was found. The officer later concocted a story that he saw what appeared to be marijuana residuals all throughout the car. Except nothing was ever collected. The officer then performed what was supposed to be standardized field sobriety tests. Some of those tests, according to the officer’s own reports, our client had passed. In addition, many of the tests that the officer used to invalidate our client were badly performed. Not only that, but the same officer, alleging that our client had alcohol on his breath (which he was wrong about), claiming that he saw what appeared to be weed (which he never collected), had a professional history of being fired from several high level law enforcement agencies for falsifying and planting evidence. This case was ultimately dismissed on all charges and client avoided having to proceed to trial.