All police officers who arrest drivers for DUI in Mississippi are trained in field sobriety testing. The most common training comes from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or NHTSA, for short. The field sobriety tests taught by NHTSA include the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test, the walk-and-turn test, and the one-leg stand test.
If you get stopped for DUI in Mississippi, you should never take these tests. At the point that an officer asks you to take these tests, he has already decided he is going to arrest you for DUI. These tests do nothing more than give the officer additional evidence to use against you. These tests cannot help you, but they can certainly hurt you. Mississippi DUI law does not require you to take these tests, and there is no penalty for refusing to take the tests. If you get pulled over in Mississippi for DUI, you should refuse to take any field sobriety tests.
If you have been arrested for DUI in Mississippi, please contact us at 601.944.1984, or visit our Jackson, MS DUI Defense website for more information.
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