In Brief
Every week someone sits across from a DUI lawyer a day after the worst night of their year, asking the same questions about the stop, the breath number, and the letter from the DHSMV. This book answers them in plain English, chapter by chapter, and the full copy is free. Here is what is inside and why it exists.
On This Page
Every week someone sits across from me, a day or a week after the worst night of their year, and asks the same questions. They ask what really happened at the stop, whether the breath number is really the end of it, what the letter from the DHSMV means, and whether their life is over. The answers do not change, and they should not cost a consultation to hear.
So I wrote them down. Arrested for DUI in Florida: What a Forensic Lawyer-Scientist Wants You to Know Before You Plead is 250 pages of plain English on how these cases really work: nineteen chapters, sixteen full-page diagrams, a Common Questions section, and four short appendices you can read in a waiting room. It is the book I wish every client had read before our first call.
What Is Inside
The book runs in four parts. Part One explains what really happened on the night of the arrest and what you are facing now, including the ten-day license clock and the true cost of a conviction. Part Two takes the evidence apart piece by piece: the breath machine and its margin of error, the roadside exercises, blood and urine testing, and the stop itself. Part Three walks through how a Florida DUI gets fought, the three roads a case can take, and the mistakes that sink winnable cases. Part Four helps you choose the right lawyer and take the next step. The print edition closes with an eight-page workbook called Your Case Notes: you fill it in while the details are fresh and hand it to your lawyer at your first meeting.
How to Get Your Free Copy
The paperback ($17.95) and the Kindle edition ($7.99) arrive on Amazon this week. But if you or someone you love is facing a DUI charge in Tampa Bay, do not wait and do not pay. Request a free copy at thesafirlawyer.com/book and two things happen: the digital edition, cover and all, is delivered the moment you submit the form, and a paperback from the first printing goes into the mail to you. No invoice follows and no obligation attaches. The first ten days after an arrest matter more than any fee, and I would rather you spend them reading than guessing.
Why I Wrote It
I started as an Assistant Public Defender in Tampa’s Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, where I handled hundreds of cases. Since then I have become one of six lawyers in Florida to hold the ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist designation, an NHTSA-qualified field sobriety instructor, and a member of the National College for DUI Defense National Task Force committees on alcohol and drug testing devices and on trial advocacy. This book puts that training on paper. Every case is different, and no book can tell you how yours will end, but you deserve to walk into it understanding what the State must prove and how the machines it relies on can go wrong.
If you want something shorter first, the free guide 6 Things You Should Know About DUIs and a full library of free topic booklets on DUI, criminal defense, and injury law are already waiting at instant downloads.
It is coming to Amazon in paperback and Kindle. And if you or someone you love is facing a DUI in Tampa Bay, I will mail you a copy free, no strings.
Because the most expensive mistakes happen in the first ten days, and you are better Safir than sorry.
WRITTEN AND REVIEWED BY
Rory Safir, ACS-CHAL Forensic Lawyer-Scientist
He is the author of The Florida DUI Trial Manual, an NHTSA-qualified instructor in the standardized field sobriety exercises, faculty of the National College for DUI Defense, and a former Assistant Public Defender in the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit.
The book is general information about Florida DUI law and practice. It is not legal advice about any specific case.
