52-3 District Court Drunk Driving Not Guilty!!!!!

Last friday, Amberg & Amberg attorney Jim Amberg won an "impossible" drunk driving jury trial in the 52-3 District Court in Rochester before Judge Nancy Carniak.  The case itself involved a client who ran into another driver while that driver was stopped at a light.  Upon arrival, the Oakland County Sheriff Deputies began asking the client questions about her alcohol use, to which she admitted drinking two glasses of wine.  The deputies then performed sobriety tests on the client and indicated she failed, although Jim told the jury he thought she passed.  The deputies then took the client to the police station, where the client blew a .12 on the Datamster breath test machine.

At the trial, Jim argued that his client had issues with acid reflux which could have caused problems with the breath test machine.  Eventually the deputy even admitted that had he known of the client's issues, he would have requested a blood test.  The jury felt the same way Jim did and found the client NOT GUILTY of all charges!!!!!