According to a Florida Supreme Court ruling, a police officer who asked a suspected drunk driver to recite the alphabet from C to W was violating the state's guarantees against self-incrimination. By asking for only part of the alphabet rather than the whole 26 letters, the usual test, the court concluded that the officer was trying to trip up the driver—in essence compelling him to be a witness against himself. A request to recite the entire alphabet would have been legal, the court noted, because it seeks information only.

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