Terms and Definitions Related To Drinking and Driving.

DUI Glossary

Drunk Driving, DUI, DWI, OUI, OWI, DUII, DWAI, OUIL or OMVI: each state has a different way of describing it, but no matter what you call it, you need a lawyer to help if you are charged with it.

Drunk driving arrests, drunk driving cases, and drunk driving defense lawyers seemingly have a language all their own. We have attempted to define some key terms and concepts for you here.

APS, or Administrative Per Se	Alcohol Gaze Nystagmus (AGN)
BAC	BAL
Burnoff	Caloric-Nystagmus
Driving	Drunk Driving
DUI	DUII
DUIL or OUIL	DWAI
DWI	DWUI
Enhancements	Epileptic Nystagmus
Field Sobriety Test (FST)	Fixation
Gaze Nystagmus	Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN)
Impairment or Intoxication	Jerk Nystagmus
Motions	National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
Natural Nystagmus	Neurological Nystagmus
Not Guilty	Nystagmus
Oculomotor	OMVI
One-Leg-Stand (OLS) test	Optokinetic Nystagmus
Oscillate	OUI
OWI	Pathological Disorder
Pendular Nystagmus	Per Se Laws
Physiological Nystagmus	Positional Alcohol Nystagmus (PAN)
PAN I	PAN II
Positional Nystagmus	Post-Rotational Nystagmus
Reasonable Doubt	Resting Nystagmus
Retrograde extrapolation	Rising Alcohol Defense
Rotational Nystagmus	Saccadic
Smooth Pursuit	Southern California Research Institute (SCRI)
Standardized Field Sobriety Test (SFST)	Under the Influence
Vehicle	Vertical Nystagmus
Vestibular System	Vestibular System Nystagmus
Voir Dire	Walk-and-Turn (WAT) test

For additional information, please contact a DUI defense lawyer in your jurisdiction.

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