Drunk Driving & Related Vehicular Offenses

LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida DUI Law

With its easy-to-navigate table of contents, concise on-point writing, and abundant practical features, LexisNexis Practice Guide: Florida DUI Law by Robert S. Reiff and H. Scott Fingerhut provides an excellent source to help attorneys find answers to their questions about Florida DUI practice.

• Combines on-point coverage of the law with practical, how-to insights developed through the authors' years of practice experience.
• Within each chapter, warnings, timing alerts, strategic points, and exceptions point out potential issues and help prevent practice missteps.
• Checklists highlight important considerations and procedural steps in building a case.
• The forms appendix contains dozens of sample forms for use in your DUI practice.
• Annual updating with replacement volumes ensures that all coverage remains current.

Price: $572.00

Publisher: LEXIS Law Publishing Company
Bookstore
Format: 2 volumes, softbound
ISBN: 9798341711587
Copyright: 2025

Table of Contents

Volume 1

Chapter 1 The Basics of DUI
Chapter 1A The Stop and Arrest
Chapter 2 Physical Sobriety Exercises
Chapter 3 Roadblocks and Sobriety Checkpoints
Chapter 3A Refusal to Submit to Testing and Florida’s Implied Consent Laws
Chapter 4 Breath and Urine Testing
Chapter 4A Blood Testing
Chapter 4B Limitations on DUI Prosecutions: The Double Jeopardy Clause and the Statute of Limitations
Chapter 5 Administrative Driver’s License Hearings
Chapter 5A Jury Selection
Chapter 5B Motion Practice
Chapter 6 Cross-Examination of the Arresting Officer

Volume 2

Chapter 6A DUI and the Entrapment, Necessity and Sleep Disorder Defenses
Chapter 6B Expert Witnesses
Chapter 6C The Closing Argument
Chapter 6D Jury Instructions
Chapter 6E Alcohol-Related Accidents and Felony DUI
Chapter 7 Accident Investigation and Reconstruction
Chapter 8 Boating Under the Influence
Chapter 8A DUI and Drug Recognition
Chapter 8B Sentencing
Chapter 9 Selling Yourself to the DUI Client
Chapter 10 The Collateral Consequences of a DUI Case
Chapter 11 DUI in a Civil Context
Chapter 12 Top Twenty Tips for Defending DUI Cases
Chapter 13 Exposing the Myths of a DUI Case
Chapter 14 DUI Defense and Ethical Practice of the Law

The DUI book is now in its 5th Edition!

Attorney Robert Reiff is well-known throughout the Florida legal world as the author of “Drunk Driving and Related Vehicular Offenses” and its numerous editions. This book is considered the lawyer's complete guidebook to drunk driving defense.

Price: $190.00

Publisher: LEXIS Law Publishing Company
Bookstore
Format: 1 volume, hardbound
ISBN: 082057550X
Copyright: 2005

Description:

In today's courts, there is no crime more aggressively legislated, prosecuted, or adjudicated than driving while under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

This one-stop resource demystifies a complex area of law, analyzing exhaustively the many available avenues of prosecution and lines of defense. Noted DUI expert Robert S. Reiff, rated the most effective DUI advocate in South Florida by the Miami Herald, shows you how to sell yourself to your client, select a jury, cross-examine the arresting officer, and deliver a strong closing argument. He offers his "Top Twenty Tips" for defending DUI cases, and provides a large assortment of proven forms for pleadings, motions, correspondence, and other uses. Learn from the Master DUI Practitioner who has taught thousands of attorneys how to better manage their practices and win their cases.

A valuable practice tool that helps you win cases and increase profits, Drunk Driving provides:

• More forms to streamline your practice
• Sobriety exercises and breath, urine and blood tests
• Jeopardy limitations on prosecutions
• Administrative driver's license hearings
• The entrapment and necessity defenses
• Expert witnesses
• Accident reconstruction
• Sentencing

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 The Basics
Chapter 3 The Initial Client Meeting
Chapter 4 The Stop and Arrest
Chapter 5 Physical Sobriety Exercises
Chapter 6 Roadblocks
Chapter 7 Breath and Urine Testing
Chapter 8 Refusal to Submit to the Breath Test
Chapter 9 Blood Tests
Chapter 10 Administrative Driver's License Hearings
Chapter 11 Jeopardy Limitations on Prosecutions
Chapter 12 Jury Selection
Chapter 13 Cross-Examination of the Arresting Officer
Chapter 14 DUI, the Entrapment and Necessity Defenses
Chapter 15 Expert Witnesses
Chapter 16 The Closing Argument
Chapter 17 Jury Instructions
Chapter 18 Murder, Manslaughter, Vehicular Homicide, and DUI with Serious Bodily Injury
Chapter 19 DUI and Drug Recognition
Chapter 20 Sentencing
Chapter 21 Accident Investigation and Reconstruction
Chapter 22 Top Twenty Tips for Defending DUI Cases
Chapter 23 Some Other Serious Vehicular Offenses
Chapter 24 DUI in a Civil Context
Chapter 25 Boating Under the Influence