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Experts Testify on BAC Level in Fatal DUI Trial in New Jersey

By Michael

Experts believe that the man charged in a fatal DUI from 2006 may have had a BAC four times the legal limit, NJ.com is reporting. On April 20, 2006, a car hit two teenage girls as they walked down the side of a New Jersey road coming back from a movie theater. They were killed, and now the driver of that car faces trial in Morristown, New Jersey. Medical experts recently testified about the state of the driver in the case, which moved into its fourth day at the time of the testimony. Their determination was that Eugene Baum, who was driving the vehicle that struck the girls, registered a blood-alcohol level of .305, which is four times the legal limit, when measurement was taken several hours after the accident. Using a technique called ?back extrapolation,? another forensic scientist estimated that Baum?s blood-alcohol level could have been as high as ...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on February 07, 2010 (boomark / email).