Our client was stopped after an off-duty Indian River Deputy Sheriff called 911 in Brevard County to report an alleged recklessly driving semi-truck. Deputies responded to the scene where the vehicle was last seen and observed the semi-truck fail to maintain a lane and allegedly driving off of the road. Based on their interactions with our client, law enforcement believed she was under the influence of an unknown substance and attempted to conduct a DUI investigation. Our client refused to conduct Field Sobriety Exercises and was placed under arrest. At the police station, our client provided a urine sample for law enforcement to show them that she wasn’t under the influence of anything illegal.
As soon as our attorneys received the case, they went to work on our client’s behalf. Based on what our attorneys were told by the client, the attorneys started negotiations with the State to inform them that our client has insomnia and was on medications for the same, which caused her to be tired while she was driving, not under the influence of anything. Once the urine results were returned to the State, it confirmed what our attorneys had been saying, and the State agreed to amend the charge from DUI to Careless Driving, a civil ticket, with no points or conviction assessed to our client’s license.