On January 28, 2026, Mr. Alford and his client elected to take his case to a jury trial. Mr. Wilson was charged with a serious 2nd DUI, Refusal, and Driving While License Suspended. Mr. Alford severed the charge of Refusal and proceeded to a trial. During the trial, the State presented a Deputy who never conducted a DUI investigation. The rookie deputy had an experienced DUI Deputy oversee the investigation. During cross, Mr. Alford got the Deputies to admit the investigation was not done to standards required by NHTSA. The supervising DUI Deputy did not cure or fix anything in the investigation. After Mr. Wilson was arrested, they attempted to read Implied Consent. During the reading, Mr. Wilson pleaded the 5th and asked for an attorney. At no time did he say he refused. The Deputies took that as a refusal without curing his issues of the request. They further failed to give him that opportunity at the jail with the intoxilyzer.
At closing, Mr. Alford argued there was no probable cause for the arrest itself, and if there was probable cause, Mr. Wilson did not refuse. The jury came back with a Not Guilty Verdict after 1 hour of deliberations.