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Blood Sample Analysis: .15%?.But Was It Yours?

By Lawrence Taylor

Let me tell you about one of my law firm's DUI cases that ended up in a Los Angeles Times article entitled 'DUI Case Botched by Blood Mixup'. One of the attorneys in the firm had a young client who had been arrested for drunk driving by the Los Angeles Police Department and had a blood sample drawn from his arm. He swore to us that he was innocent, and 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 the blood samples of all our DUI clients. The lab reported the blood alcohol level to be .13% — lower than the police analyss, but still a long way from being under ...continue to full post

Full post as published by DUI Blog on December 23, 2010 (boomark / email).