 Hi, I'm David Cantor with the Law Offices of David Michael Cantor and today I'm going to talk about the Holiday DUI Task Force. Now what happens is from Thanksgiving all the way through New Year's Eve they run the East Valley DUI Task Force and that's where they flood the East Valley with police officers and they try and arrest everybody to see if they're drunk or not. So what happens is they pull over thousands and thousands of people and then they effectuate arrests for about 20% of those people. So if you go out to a holiday party or at Christmas or for New Year's and you're out drinking take a cab, have a designated driver. If you do happen to be pulled over don't think well I only had a few drinks so I'm fine. Don't risk it. The officer says serve you been drinking. You give him the same answer as if he said sir did you rob a bank or sir did you kill 10 people. You say I'm not going to answer questions or do any tests until I talk to my lawyer. Don't look at a pen and follow it with your eyes. He may arrest you but he's probably going to arrest you anyway in the lonely ways to couple hours of your life. You call us we have a 24 hour answering service 24 hour pager. One of our lawyers will call you back in five minutes even if it's four in the morning and we'll advise you on whether to take the blood or breath test or not. Now those field tests that they want you to do out on the street you don't have to take those. That's perfectly voluntary and there's no repercussions if you refuse those. The problem is they're subjective meaning the officer can say well he was stumbling falling looked really intoxicated when in reality you did very well on the tests. So you want some hard physical evidence so call us we'll talk to you on the phone figure out what you had to drink and we'll do what's called a retrograde extrapolation a math calculation really quick to figure out what your reading will be then we'll advise you whether or not to take a blood or breath test. Now the importance of this is at trial the officer cannot comment on your invocation of your right to remain silent and talk to a lawyer. So what he will say is I saw Mr. Jones weave I pulled him over he smelled of alcohol I arrested him took him to the station he gave me blood and I sent him home and the jury will go wait a second didn't you offer him any field tests what do you mean you just arrested him you didn't even ask him if he'd been drinking well in reality the officer is not allowed to make any comment so the judge will say you're only to consider the evidence before you because remember the state has the burden of the proof so it works to your advantage if you say I will not answer questions until I talk to my lawyer and again when you call us in the middle of the night it doesn't cost you anything this is a public service we will talk to you but if you've been charged with the DUI and you're now just watching this video and you need a defense attorney please give us a call or fill out our contact form and get in touch with us and we'll be more than happy to talk to you otherwise if you have not been pulled over but you're gonna be going out take a cab get a designated driver and have a happy holiday.