In most cases the officer, if he smells alcohol, will ask you to exit your vehicle to perform field sobriety tests. The ‘exit order’ must be justified by a reasonable and articulable suspicion on the officer’s part to suspect that you are operating under the influence or that you have committed some other type of crime. Whether or not his suspicion was reasonable is a question to be determined by the court at a later date. Once you have exited the vehicle, the officer will ask you to perform a series of field sobriety tests. Field sobriety tests are voluntary. The officer may not compel you to perform them. In other words, it is your choice whether or not to perform the field sobriety tests. If you decline to perform the field sobriety tests, that fact will be admissible in any trial or administrative hearing for operating under the influence. Likewise, if you do decide to perform the field sobriety tests, the results of your performance will be admissible in any trial or administrative hearing for operating under the influence. The decision of whether or not to perform the field sobriety tests is a personal one. You are not entitled to the advice of an attorney in making that decision. If you have any physical disabilities that may hinder your performance of the tests, you should make the officer aware of that fact prior to the performance of each test. These tests are very difficult to perform to the satisfaction of the officer, according to his training, even for a person in perfect health and one who is very athletic and nimble.