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 205 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 thirteen free topic booklets on DUI and criminal defense are already waiting at instant downloads. And for the lawyers reading this: the practitioner volume, The Florida DUI Science Manual, is coming.
If the charge is yours, call or text me any hour. The first conversation is free, and you talk to me, not a screener.
You’re better Safir than sorry.
Rory Safir
(727) 761-4318
