Do you realize that
“Standardized” field sobriety
tests are not reliable evidence of intoxication? In healthy people,
the one-leg stand test is only about 65% accurate in predicting whether someone
will be over the current legal BAC limit of 0.08%. That percentage would earn a D
letter grade in school! In addition, the walk-and-turn test is only about
68% accurate. So, people with injuries, medical conditions, 50 pounds or
greater overweight, and 65 years or older cannot be validly judged by “standard”
field sobriety tests. The Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus, or what is
commonly referred to as the eye test, is not
admissible in New Jersey
courts to prove that an individual is intoxicated.
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