Can You Be Arrested for Suspicion of DUI?

It is tricky to answer the question “can you be arrested for suspicion of DUI?” The United States legal system presumes that a driver is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law, even if an arresting officer suspects the driver committed a crime. Yet many states seem to have DUI laws that presume guilt before a court trial occurs and permit police officers to question drivers without any suspicion at all. In some sense, all DUI arrests are based only on a suspicion rather than on conclusive proof, but drivers face laws that are targeted to convict even...

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