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Florida DUI, criminal defense, and personal injury, explained by a forensic lawyer-scientist and former public defender. Celebrity cases, courtroom strategy, and the science behind the evidence, in plain English.

Rory Safir

Every post here is written by Rory Safir, one of a handful of ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientists in Florida and a former Assistant Public Defender in Tampa.

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Can the Crime Lab Be Wrong? A DNA Analyst Just Got Ten Years for Deleting Results

A state crime lab DNA analyst deleted results for years and an intern caught it. She got ten years on September 8. What a lab report actually is, why the analyst has to come to court, and the records a Florida defense lawyer asks for by name....

How Many Drinks Is Over the Legal Limit in Florida?

Florida law never counts drinks. It sets alcohol concentration limits, and the number of drinks it takes to reach them moves with body weight, time, food, and the machine doing the measuring. Here is what the limits actually are, why nobody can promise you a safe number, and what matters...

A Lazy Eye, and the Check a Florida DUI Officer Is Supposed to Run First

A police officer is on the witness stand. He has spent forty minutes telling a jury that the way a woman's eyes moved on the side of a road proved she was impaired. And I am asking him to define a lazy eye....

Cannabis DUI Dropped: What a Positive Urine Test Actually Proves

The State offered diversion. Our client turned it down, we sent the prosecutor a forensic packet instead of filing a motion, and the charge was dropped in full....

RFI Detect: How an Officer’s Radio Undid a 0.179 Breath Test

Everyone who walks into a Florida breath testing room is carrying a transmitter. The operator has a portable radio. The arresting officer has a phone, a body camera on his chest, and more often than not a smartwatch....

A Blood Result Is a Claim, Not a Fact: Three Things From My New Guide

If a nurse drew your blood after a crash, or an officer said "warrant" and "blood" in the same sentence, you know the feeling. Somewhere in a lab there's a tube with your name on it, and everyone around you is acting like whatever number comes out of that tube...

Two Words That Can Take Apart a Drug DUI

If you were arrested for driving under the influence of a drug and never touched a drop of alcohol, you are not imagining how strange this feels. Maybe you took a medication your own doctor prescribed, exactly as the bottle said. Maybe you used lawful medical marijuana days earlier....

The Grading Started Before You Stepped Out of the Car

If an officer recently asked you to walk a line, stand on one leg, or follow a pen with your eyes, you're probably replaying every wobble and telling yourself you failed. I want to slow that tape down....

How a Florida Breath Test Can Be Wrong: Inside the Intoxilyzer 8000

A breath testing machine is built to look like the last word....

Not Guilty: The Eye Test Was the Whole Case

The State's case rested on an involuntary eye movement. The jury did not accept it as proof of impairment beyond a reasonable doubt....

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