Thanksgiving DUI Advice: What to do if You’re Stopped in Mississippi

Описание: Holiday weekends—especially Thanksgiving—bring some of the highest DUI enforcement levels of the entire year. Extra patrol units, checkpoints, saturation teams, and “operation” details flood Mississippi roads. Officers are looking for any reason to initiate a stop: tag lights, lane drift, rolling stops, speeding a few miles over. Once they get to your window, the process escalates fast.

That’s why the rule is simple: don’t blow.

The breath test is the State’s most powerful piece of evidence against you. Without it, prosecutors must rely on officer observations, body-cam footage, and field sobriety tests—which are often filled with inconsistencies, improper instructions, and scoring errors. Refusing the test may trigger an administrative license suspension, but that’s a separate battle we can fight. A bad breath number, however, becomes a weapon the State uses relentlessly.

During holiday periods, officers are quick to jump to impairment conclusions based on stress, fatigue from travel, cold weather, or simple nervousness. None of that equals DUI. But a breath sample gives them a shortcut to build a case you’ll spend months trying to unravel.

Protect yourself. Protect your family. Protect your record. If you’re pulled over, be respectful, provide your license and paperwork, and then say as little as possible. And above all—don’t blow.

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