BASIC FACTS: A police officer observed a driver drive through a stop sign without coming to a complete stop.  The officer pulled out and activated his blue lights.  The driver pulled his car over and waited for the officer to approach his window.  The officer demanded that the driver provide him with his license and registration.  The driver complied with this command.

After smelling a “moderate odor of alcohol”, the officer ordered the driver to step out of his car for a “field sobriety test”.  The driver decided to agree to the “tests”.  The officer conducted the “pen test” which is also known as the “horizontal gaze nystagmus test”.  This is a roadside ritual in which the officer waives the pen and makes a conclusion that the driver is drunk based on the way his pupils move.  The driver agreed to perform the pen test, which he predictably “failed”.  Next the officer asked him to walk down a line in heel to toe fashion with his arms by his side.  The driver wisely told the officer that he had a medical issue which would prevent him from doing the “heel to toe” test.  The officer asked him to stand on one leg for 30 seconds.  The driver told him that he couldn’t do that either due to a medical condition.  The officer then asked him to do some exercises in which he tapped his thumb against his fingers.  The driver was charged with DWI.  He elected not exercise his choice NOT TO BLOW INTO THE BREATH TESTING GADGET at the police station.  After the arrest, the driver hired Attorney Stevens to fight the DWI charge.

TRIAL:           The state produced the testimony of two police officers and a civilian witness.  After cross examining the state’s witnesses, Attorney Stevens asked the Court to find the driver NOT GUILTY. 

RESULT:       NOT GUILTY ON DWI CHARGE!!!

Attorney Stevens thanks God for this successful defense!!!

TODAY’S SCRIPTURE:

“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;

Remove the evil of your deeds from My sight.

Cease to do evil.

Learn to do good;

Reprove the ruthless,

Defend the orphan,

Plead for the widow.

Isiah 1:16-17.

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