Date: September 9, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Host: PDS
Credits: 1 [PENDING]
Cost: Free
Location: Zoom
Registration: [Register here]
Summary: This session breaks down the NHTSA Standardized Field Sobriety Test battery, HGN, Walk-and-Turn, and One-Leg Stand, and the strict administration and scoring protocols officers are trained to follow. Attendees will learn to spot common instruction, demonstration, and scoring errors that undermine test reliability and how to identify them in reports and video evidence. Attendees will additionally be made aware of the most common errors in report-writing police make time and time again.
Faculty Biography: Adam Fisher is the founder and lead consultant of Fisher DUI Consulting LLC, where he provides expert consultation to criminal defense attorneys on DUI and drug DUI matters across New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Vermont, Connecticut and Rhode Island. Leveraging eleven years of investigative experience in law enforcement, he conducts case file reviews, evaluates field sobriety testing and Drug Recognition Expert evaluations, and prepares written expert findings reports for motion practice and trial.
Fisher began his law enforcement career with the Lebanon Police Department in 2014 before transferring to the Nashua Police Department in 2016, where he became the agency’s first certified Drug Recognition Expert and founded its DRE Unit, authoring its Standard Operating Policy. As a DRE Instructor and SFST Instructor at the New Hampshire Police Academy, he trained officers across the state in Standardized Field Sobriety Testing, ARIDE, and DRE protocols. He went on to serve as a Training Officer within Nashua’s Professional Standards Division before being assigned to Detective in the Criminal Investigation Division, where he conducted felony level investigations and authored arrest and search warrants.
Fisher has been formally recognized as an expert witness in Drug Recognition Expert testimony by the New Hampshire 9th Circuit District Division. He is a CPCS-Approved Expert for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and an Approved Expert Vendor with the Maine Commission on Public Defense Services. He holds a Master of Business Administration in Management from Rivier University and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Bridgewater State University.
Admission Restrictions: Unless otherwise approved by PDS, to attend this training, you must be eligible to accept PDS case assignments or be a current student at Maine Law.