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Are you sure the blood they tested was yours?

By Lawrence Taylor

Let me tell you about one of our DUI cases that ended up on the front pages of the Los Angeles Times. My law firm had a young client, I'll call him "Steve", who had been arrested for drunk driving by the Los Angeles Police Department and a blood sample drawn from his arm. He swore to us that he was innocent, and after interviewing witnesses and reviewing the evidence we believed him. Problem: the blood alcohol content of the sample was .15% — almost twice the drunk driving limit. Now what? We obtained a portion of the sample from the LAPD crime lab and sent it to a private lab that we use for reanalyzing blood of all our DUI clients. The lab reported the blood alcohol level to be .13% — lower, but a long way from being under ...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on November 18, 2009 (boomark / email).