Arizona DUI Penalties »

January 6, 2010

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Implied consent laws require the suspected drivers, driving under the influence to admit to breath, blood, or urine testing for alcohol content. Refusal for going under through those tests can result penalties that can include mandatory suspension of a driving license.

Blood Alcohol Concentration (BAC)

In Arizona if any driver is having blood alcohol concentration level above .08 % then he will be deemed “per se intoxicated” under the law. Under this condition, this evidence is all that is needed for a driver to be convicted of Driving Under the Influence (DUI) or Driving While Intoxicated (DWI).

Zero Tolerance Blood-Alcohol Concentration

Zero tolerance laws in all states center on drivers not of legal drinking age. In Arizona drivers under 21 years of age operating the motor vehicles with a .02% blood alcohol level or higher than that will be convicted for DUI charges.

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Why the Breathalyzers don’t Work Properly »

July 29, 2009

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Here I am giving just one of many examples explaining why the breathalyzers do not work properly. The computers that are inside Breathalyzers what actually do is that they just multiply the amount of alcohol in a DUI suspect’s breath sample 2100 times in order to get the blood alcohol concentration ("BAC").

It happens because they are programmed in such a way that they assume that the suspect has 2100 units of alcohol in his blood for every single unit of alcohol in his breath. This is what we call the "partition ratio". But this ratio is only an average: actual ratios shows variation from as low as 900:1 to as high as 3500:1; if individual ratio is different, then surely the BAC result will be different.

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