Drinker's Guide to Driving

This book is a practical manual of driving under the influence. What DUI means, how to avoid doing it, how to avoid getting caught if you do it, how to avoid a conviction if you do get caught. Told by one of the nation's leading DUI specialists, with over thirty years of legal experience, this is a book with solid practical advice on every page. Tom Hudson uses clear explanations and easy to understand charts and graphs to explain many of the 'unspeakable truths' about drunk driving, including: How the government has overstated the problem of drinking and driving The best ways to drive safely after drinking The best ways to avoid arrest for drinking and driving Why you should never take the Field Sobriety Tests Why it used to be better to refuse a breath test, but it is now often wiser to blow How to legally minimize your breath alcohol if they test your breath How marijuana affects drivingNo one should drive after they have had too much to drink, but how much is too much? This is an ideal book for anyone who ever takes a drink of alcohol and gets behind the wheel. Tom Hudson is a nationally recognized DUI lawyer, with offices in Sarasota and Key West, Florida. He started practice as a felony prosecutor in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1981, and began practicing in Florida in 1996. At this writing, Tom is the Florida Delegate to the National College for DUI defense, and has been nationally board-certified in DUI Defense since 2008. Tom is also certified as an Instructor in the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests, and first completed the Florida Breath Test Operator course in 2004. He has tried hundreds of criminal jury trials, from misdemeanor cases to death penalty murder cases. Many of those trials were DUI cases.