Defendant Found Not Guilty of OUI 4th Offense After Jury Trial

On September 26, 2015 a Massachusetts State Trooper was on routine patrol on Route 93 southbound in Andover, Massachusetts. His attention was drawn to a vehicle that was swerving from lane to lane and failing to use signals when doing so. The officer followed the car for a mile and then made the decision to pull the car over. He approached the vehicle and immediately detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from the interior of the vehicle. He observed the driver to have slurred speech, bloodshot and red eyes and to be unsteady on his feet. Three field sobriety tests were administered, the horizontal gaze nystagmus, the walk and turn and the one legged stand. The defendant failed all of these tests. During the course of the field sobriety tests the defendant urinated in his pants. The defendant had been convicted of three prior OUI offenses. He was charged with OUI, a violation of G.L. c. 90 Section 24. He was also charged with operating to endanger. The defendant hired Attorney Stephen Neyman to represent him. Today the defendant was acquitted after a jury trial. Not Guilty.

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