Well, I suppose Marcia Clark has a different perspective from mine. She'd be likely to have read only reports of drunk driving arrests that were likely to go to trial, as Gibson's might be. So, perhaps there would have been a higher level of detail in the Mel Gibson arrest report.

I read ALL the reports, and the vast majority of drunk driving arrests end in a guilty plea without going to trial. And the vast majority of the reports are almost exactly the same, word-for-word:

He/she was seen weaving across the highway as he/she drove on the highway at (location).
When he was stopped, he said he had X beers at (time)
He/she had dilated eyes and slurred speech and the odor of alcohol on his/her breath, so a field sobriety test was administered. He/she was asked to recite the alphabet forward and backward, without singing, had he/she attempted x times and got as far as the letter___.
He/she was then asked to walk in a straight line, putting one foot in front of the other. He/She could walk ___ feet before stumbling.
Having failed the Field Sobriety Test, he/she was given a Breathalizer test, which showed a blood-alcohol content of 0.xx percent by weight.
Since the blood-alcohol content was over 0.08 percent, he/she was booked in the county jail, and his/her vehicle was impounded (or given to a sober friend or relative or passenger to drive home)

That's the standard report from the California Highway Patrol, which does the majority of drunk driving arrests in California. I read hundreds of these, and rarely found an interesting one.

If Marcia Clark was as hot-shot a lawyer as she's reputed to be, I do wonder how she got stuck on DUI duty long enough to prosecute thousands of cases.

-Joe-

This page (click) has some interesting stuff on highway traffic safety enforcement, and specific information on Field Sobriety Tests. Apparently, they don't do the alphabet test any more.