Standard field sobriety tests (SFSTs)

“dui cases there are something called the standard field sobriety tests sfsts for short you know if you ever hear about people like walking in a line maybe raising a leg they do this thing where they say follow my finger with your eyes those are the standard field sobriety tests um one of the common things that we hear about is say the alphabet backwards that's actually not a real thing thank god they might ask you to count backwards or they might ask you to say the alphabet forward like you know say hey start from k and go to t but they're not going to ask you to say the alphabet anyway but the thing is on some of those more standard tests where it's like you know follow my finger walk in a straight line raise one leg they have these sort of clues that they use and the thing is almost across the board in every single dui case they're going to write that somebody fails those tests”

“walking in a line um because the police officer tells you to and they say that's you know maybe you don't exactly touch the tip of your you know your your toes to your heel like you're supposed to you missed by maybe half a centimeter that's a clue it doesn't matter if you only miss heel toe once on the entire nine steps that you take um it doesn't matter if you you know miss it every single time it doesn't matter if you miss it by half a centimeter or by you know half a foot they were going to mark that down as a clue on their report”

“they were going to mark that down as a clue on their report”