(Complete Vitae available upon request)

Anthony Palacios is the former Standardized Field Sobriety Testing State Coordinator for the State of Georgia and was 1 of 3 full time Impaired Driving instructors for the Georgia Police Academy at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center (GPSTC). Anthony is a former International Association Chiefs of Police Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) Instructor and a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST) Instructor.

Since becoming a private consultant in 2008, Anthony has consulted in DUI & DRE related cases in the states of Alabama, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Missouri, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Vermont.

Anthony has lectured on DUI & DRE related topics at several national and state conferences for prosecutors and defense attorneys.

Key qualifications include:

National & State Presentations

• Colorado Criminal Defense Bar, Annual DUID Conference 2010, Keystone, Colorado, "Everything You Need to Know About the DRE"

• National College for DUI Defense, Winter Session 2010, Celebrity Solstice, "Field Sobriety Tests - Learning What They Are and How to Use Them"
  
  

• National College for DUI Defense, Summer Session 2009, Cambridge, Massachusetts, "Overview of the Drug Recognition Expert Program"

• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers & National College for DUI Defense, 12th Annual DUI Seminar 2008, Las Vegas, Nevada, "Analyzing a Police Video"

• ICLE of Georgia, Handling Administrative License Suspensions and Revocations Conference 2008, Atlanta, Georgia, "The Proper Administration of the SFSTs"

• Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia, Summer Conference 2005, Jekyll Island, Georgia, "Administering the SFSTs"

Other Qualifications Include:

• Trained over 3,000 Georgia, South Carolina and Tennessee law enforcement officers and attorneys in the detection of drivers under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs

• Instructed over 4,000 hours in NHTSA/IACP Impaired Driving curriculum

• Instructed the NHTSA DUI/SFST practitioner course, DUI/SFST Instructor course, SFST Instructor Update course, and SFST Refresher course over 90 times to law enforcement officers and attorneys

• Instructed the IACP Drug Recognition Expert Instructor course, DRE Pre-School, DRE 7-Day School, and DRE Re-Certification course over 30 times to law enforcement officers

• Instructed the NHTSA Drugs That Impair Driving course over 45 times to law enforcement officers and attorneys

• Critiqued over 1,000 law enforcement officers in the proper administration of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests during course Proficiency exams

• Critiqued over 100 law enforcement officers in the Drug Recognition Expert 12- step evaluation process during course Field Certification Phase

• Evaluated over 300 DUI/DRE narratives for law enforcement officers and prosecutors

• Arrested over 800 impaired drivers and assisted in over 200 additional impaired driving arrests as a DUI Task Force officer and/or DRE Instructor

• Conducted over 130 alcohol workshops dosing over 520 persons with alcoholic beverages observing signs and symptoms of alcohol consumption with breath alcohol readings ranging from .01 to .15 grams.