Training & Recognition · An advocate, not a case processor
Attorney Micah E. Huggins has sat through the same impaired-driving courses North Carolina officers take, through the instructor level, and worked in a forensic lab running blood samples himself. Here is the training behind every DWI and criminal case this firm takes.
The officer’s own training
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration writes the field sobriety and drug-recognition curriculum officers are taught. Knowing that standard is how we measure what the officer did on your video.
The course that teaches officers how to teach field sobriety testing. Completed in Alpharetta, Georgia.
How the drug-recognition evaluation officers perform is structured, and where it can be challenged at trial.
How officers are trained to look for drug impairment at the roadside.
The same SFST course officers take before they make DWI arrests.
Science and trial advocacy
Blood and breath numbers come from machines and labs. These programs teach how those numbers are made, and how to cross-examine the people who make them.
National College for DUI Defense. Days in a working forensic lab preparing blood samples and running gas chromatography, then trial work on cross-examining the State’s chemist. 2023 graduate list
The 29th annual program on the science behind impaired-driving prosecutions.
National College for DUI Defense Winter Session, built around breath-test trial scenarios.
National College for DUI Defense Summer Session on storytelling and persuasion at trial.
A trial-techniques program taught by practicing DUI defense lawyers.
Service and recognition
Author
Six Keys to Lead Yourself to Success in Your Life, Work, and Relationships (2023). A book on purpose and identity.
Completing these courses does not make Attorney Huggins a specialist, and he is not certified as a specialist in DWI or criminal law by the North Carolina State Bar or by the National College for DUI Defense. Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome; every case is different.
