Tiger Woods crash: ‘Red flags’ complicate state’s case, defense attorney says ‘this should be a not guilty all day long’
Lawyer suggests there is enough reasonable doubt to allow Woods to walk free from this case.
When Tiger Woods slammed his Range Rover into the back of a slowing pickup truck’s trailer last Friday afternoon , the optics could not have been worse. Here was Woods, who had already encountered police in the course of three prior traffic incidents over the last 15 years, clambering out of the passenger side of his overturned vehicle, appearing disoriented and glassy-eyed, per a police report. He was given a field sobriety test, which he failed, and in the course of his arrest officers discovered two hydrocodone pills in his pants pocket.
Woods looked and acted inebriated, according to the arresting officers, and his already-tarnished public image took yet another hit as the news of the latest serious traffic incident involving golf’s biggest star exploded. But is Woods in legal jeopardy after his latest arrest? That’s a different question entirely, one that Florida criminal defense attorneys dispute.
“Based on the police report this morning, I don’t see any way the state can prove a DUI charge against Tiger unless they have something else that they haven’t provided yet,” criminal defense attorney Matthew Olszewski of the FL DUI Group told Yahoo Sports Tuesday morning. “This should be a ‘not guilty’ all day long. ” That coincides with what another Florida defense attorney told Yahoo Sports on Friday in the wake of Woods’ arrest.
“Seems like they have no case, no DUI case,” South Florida defense attorney Robert Reiff told Yahoo Sports. “Period, full stop. ” A vehicle carrying Tiger Woods leaves the Martin County Jail after he was arrested for driving under the influence after a car crash on March 27, 2026 in Stuart, Florida.