Do you know all your rights when you get pulled over? Via: drivingdotca
A viral video is making the rounds. Jesse Bright, a North Carolina lawyer films himself at a police highway checkpoint while talking viewers through what is legal, what is not, and how to conduct yourself if you find yourself in the same situation.
The video is unnerving. Bright drops his window a couple of inches, his papers in hand. The officer asks him to put the window down more. The lawyer doesn’t, and says nothing but shakes his head as the camera captures what seems to be a growing standoff. The lawyer hands his papers through the window, all that he is required to do by law. The officer asks him a couple of questions. The lawyer says nothing. I get tense just watching it.
“R.I.D.E. stops… do not target specific offenders, but check all for the specific offences of impairment by alcohol or drugs. Prior to December 2018, officers would require a reasonable suspicion that a driver [may be impaired] to screen the driver.” A R.I.D.E. stop is a wide net looking for impaired drivers, but its scope is narrow. You may have a burned-out headlight or a dragging muffler, but the original officer you speak to can’t fine you for that. The next cop car in line, however, can. Separate from the sobriety check.
A demand for a roadside screening test can be made on any driver, at any time, as long as it is done fairly and only for the purpose of identifying drivers that have consumed alcohol,” says Campbell. The constitutionality of MAS is being tested in courts across the country. Now they can test at will. Your interaction with the officer starts with the first question. I’m fine this evening, officer, thanks.
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