Taimoor Rana is seasoned criminal defense attorney specializing in DUI related cases. He shares his expert legal opinion here Fatal DWI crash – Man gets 15-year Sentence »
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- A suburban St. Louis man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. He has conducted a deadly crash on Interstate 70.
Chad E. Frazer was sentenced on Friday for involuntary manslaughter and leaving the scene of the accident. The accident occurred on Feb. 19 in which Robert Wood was killed.
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How Blood Tests Work in DUI and DWI Cases »
Once the police asks you to pull over for DUI or DWI, you will be required to give a breath test or you may end up taking a blood test to measure the blood alcohol content (BAC) in your body. The BAC level a crucial piece of evidence that the prosecution will use in proving that you were driving drunk.
Thus it is important to understand what this test measures, how it is administered and what can affect the results.
There are devices that have now been placed in police cars, known as breath testing equipment, that measure breath alcohol levels in suspected drunk drivers. But in case you have been accused of DUI or DWI and believe that the breath analysis is not accurate, you should request a blood test.
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Labor Day DWI Arrests Total 191 »
According to the district attorney’s office, the Harris County’s “no refusal” drunk driving program show nearly 200 arrests made over the weekend.
On Wednesday, the District Attorney Patricia Lykos made the announcement that nearly 20 percent of those facing charges also have previous DWI convictions.
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Kane Co. prosecutor considers ending DUI stings »
Kane County State’s Attorney John Barsanti has said that due to lack of cooperation from police he might abandon an aggressive DUI campaign.
On Tuesday, Barsanti said that recently two municipal police departments have turned him down, who have previously expressed interest in conducting "No Refusal" crackdowns in their jurisdictions. The objection that has been raised by the agencies, which Barsanti would not name, was that they thought it was a controversial subject.
It has been said by Barsanti that it’s a kind of surprising to him. He thought that they would have more support from the law enforcement communities.
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How do I know the blood they tested was mine? »
Let me tell you about a case that I have handled. I had a young client, I’ll call him "John", who had been arrested for drunk driving by the Los Angeles Police Department and they had drawn a blood sample from his arm. He repeatedly told me that he was innocent, and I believed him.
Problem: The sample that was drawn from his arm had the blood alcohol content of .15% which is almost twice the drunk driving limit.
Now what?
At that time I obtained a portion of the sample from the LAPD crime lab and then I sent it to a private lab that I use for reanalyzing blood of all my DUI clients. It waqs reported by the lab that the blood alcohol level was .13% though it was lower, but it was still much higher than to be under .08%. As I requested them so they also tested for preservative and anticoagulant (either fermentation or coagulation can raise the alcohol level in the sample), but they found everything in order. John still insisted that he was not driving under the influence of alcohol.
The only other possibility in this case was a faulty "chain of custody". Explaining this in other words, LAPD lab got the vial mixed up and someone else’s blood was tested by them. So I had the sample blood-typed to find out if it was that of another arrestee.
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The National College for DUI Defense »
Until a few years ago, those attorneys who attempt to defend a client who is having against drunk driving charges were general practitioners. These attorneys had little, if any, understanding of the nature of the offense. They were not familiar with such methods of DUI investigation such as as field sobriety tests, and seminars on how to defend these clients were almost completely lacking.
The most important thing was that, defense lawyers doesn’t know anything about the complexities of blood alcohol analysis, whether of blood, breath or urine. They don’t know the answers to the following questions that how does the Breathalyzer work? What does infrared analysis referred to? What is Gas chromatography? How is the metabolism of alcohol takes place in the human body? What is the "Widmark’s formula"? what is Hematocrit? What is "retrograde extrapolation" and how does it work? What are those physiological variables that can occur between individuals? What are those medical conditions that can effect a breath reading and how? What could happen if in case blood samples ferment or coagulate?
There is an involvement of knowledge of such highly technical fields as physiology, organic chemistry, physics, biophysics, electrical engineering in the chemical analysis of blood, breath or urine but these are the subjects that are far beyond the experience and training of lawyers.
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Northern Kentucky Dentist Arrested On Drug & DUI Charges »
A Northern Kentucky dentist has been arrested this morning facing DUI and drug charges.
Doctor George Miller has been arrested by the police on Wednesday afternoon on Kentucky 59 in Lewis County. After that a sheriff’s deputy pulled him over, in Miller’s car he allegedly found hydrocodone and oxycodone pills, as well as meth.
It has been said by the sheriff’s department that Miller failed the field sobriety tests on scene. A blood test was offered to him in order to test his sobriety, but reports said that Miller refused to take the test.
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