- Hi everyone Adam Feldman with the Feldman Law Firm. Thanks for hanging out today. I'm here to answer the question "What to do if you are pulled over for a DUI?" There are tons of videos out there that can tell you what to do, everything from don't take field sobriety tests, don't blow in the hand-held device, contact your attorney, this is all excellent advice but there are some other tips and techniques that you might want to employ that you really haven't heard of. And the biggest thing that I hear is "Well, is there anything that I can proactively and defensively do prior to actually being stopped?" And the answer is absolutely. So the first thing is this, you see those lights behind you, you know there are going to be two automatic questions from the officer, license and registration. Alright, so the best thing you can do is get those out and ready for the police officer before he even gets to the car. That way you can crack the window when he gets there and hand those things to him upon request. Because one of the things that you're going to see every time in every single police report is an officer saying, "I asked for the license and registration and the person was slow to get it, or he was fumbling through his dash or wallet." Or sometimes a lot of people don't even know where their registration is and while that might be embarrassing to hear, it's true. A lot of people don't know where their registration is so you're flipping through your glove department and you can't find it. Well they're going to include that in their report to basically say that you were drunk. So always make sure that before you even come to a stop, obviously doing this safely, get your license and get your registration out so you are giving them less ammunition. That's the first thing, the second thing is crack your window, don't open it all the way down. Why would you do that? Well most people will think I want to bring the window all the way down so I can talk to the police officer. Don't do it. Crack the window just enough to talk to the police officer so that he or she can hear you.
