Reasonable Suspicion, Not Probable Cause, Required for Roadside Sobriety Tests
January 6th, 2012
Recently, in the case of State v. Bernokeits, the Appellate Division held that police officers need only reasonable suspicion, and not probable cause, in order to perform standard, roadside field sobriety testing on a driver suspected of driving under the influence. This means that police officers have a much lower burden when asking drivers to [...]
