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As to the police saying you have glossy eyes, anyone at any time driving a vehicle they could pull over, accuse of being impaired, and in their expert opinion arrest you. People don't realize that the laws actually allow them to charge you for impaired driving even if blood tests they get a warrant for shows zero drugs and zero alcohol. The system really is that fucked. And nobody in Authority ever wants to admit they were wrong about anything and they were all raised to have nothing but contempt for the rest of the population.
100% true, although a good lawyer will be able to prevent any "legal" penalties ultimately, they can sure fuck up your day in the meantime. This is one reason I was recommending against certain ways of antagonizing them for no reason.
For sure, and we have all seen the videos of people trying to stick up for their rights in the wrong way and getting themselves in a world of trouble. And I have been there and it is very hard to tread the line between sticking up for yourself and not getting fucked worse by the police because they have so much power and unaccountable Authority. If they want to arrest you they will. And cooperating on things like sobriety tests outside of a breathalyzer which you cannot refuse without consequence, we'll just give them probable cause as they will lie.
100%. Never ever cooperate with the sobriety test. Just say something like, "I feel like those tests are pretty subjective, so no, I don't want to do that. You can breath test me, blood test me, whatever [because yes those do have consequences if you refuse], because I'm sober [because you ARE sober, as opposed to careening around on the road trying to get my nieces killed RIGHT?]. But no, I'm refusing the field sobriety test, if you want my answer on that."
You'll probably get arrested. It will be a pain in the ass. But, that might have happened anyway, so you might as well start setting things up to advantage yourself in your case. Honestly you can make your own judgement whether maybe it's worth doing a quick HGN test because the cop is for real not sure whether you are sober or not... in general, though, if they're talking to you about DUI, you should ask for a PBT and refuse any physical sobriety test (recognizing that it will make it way more likely that you get arrested). Your lawyer will thank you and you'll basically be fine.
I don't know why people focus so hard on the "getting arrested" part of the equation and not on the "beating the case" part of it, when the second part is far more important. Cops know that, and part of the manipulation that they'll do is kind of making it sound like cooperating with them is going to make getting arrested less likely. The case is the big deal part of it though.