Florida DUI Essentials through Prosecutor and Defense Lenses (Florida Specific)

This session covers critical first steps in DUI defense, including comprehensive client interviews, verifying prior offense history, and understanding professional implications. Attorneys will learn essential information gathering techniques, immigration considerations, and how to establish attorney-client privilege effectively.

Explore essential pre-trial discovery review, body camera analysis best practices, and motion practice philosophy for DUI cases. This session examines traffic stop challenges, the Ren v. United States framework, anonymous tipsters, accident report privilege, and strategies for suppressing field sobriety exercises.

A deep dive into challenging field sobriety exercises, the Intoxilyzer 8000’s scientific limitations, and partition ratio problems. Participants will learn to attack breath test reliability, understand environmental factors affecting performance, and identify medical conditions that impact field sobriety results.

This prosecution-focused session covers motions to suppress requirements, jury selection strategies, and effective opening and closing arguments. Attorneys will also examine cross-examination techniques, judgment of acquittal standards, Florida’s DUI sentencing framework, and available diversion programs.