• grue@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    The responding officer said he spoke to her after spotting her parked in grass on the side of a highway, that her speech was very slurred and she “appeared to have difficulty comprehending” questions, according to an affidavit included in court filings. A preliminary breath test displayed a .254 blood alcohol content, three times the .08 legal limit for driving, and a test taken at the jail displayed a .192 level, the affidavit says.

    Holy shit!

    Just so we’re clear about whether this is one of those things that was technically a violation but not actually “that” bad… no, this really was that bad. .254 and delirious on the side of the road!

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      .254 isn’t just getting a little carried away. That’s three bottles of wine or a whole bottle of hard liquor.

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        Among the likely many many other things she needs to be treated for, I hope they get her help with the drinking also. That’s real red flag hardcore alcoholic level BAC while still being conscious.

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        Some people have different genes to process alcohol, clearly she is not one to have these genes. And that’s why there’s limits.

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        It’s not a discrepancy, alcohol is processed over time. It’s her body working through the stuff in the ~30 mins or so that it presumably took to get to booking her. Yeah we can assume the levels aren’t 100% accurate but this tech is decades old so probably pretty close. There are many problems with policing; imo this isn’t one of them.

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          Once the cops have someone on a DUI pulled over, its probably a relief to see them blow something so high because they know they have enough time to get to the precinct for further tests.

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            I mean sure but not that much, afaik the tests at the scene (for BAC, not the subjective tests) are pretty solid as far as evidence goes. In this case it probably mattered even less, blowing a .25 equates to looking pretty fucking smashed for most people so the test is basically just checking a box lmao

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            I’ve read that those portable tests on the scene aren’t super accurate. Another commentor said they aren’t generally acceptable as proof of DUI in the courts either. None of this is solid fact from research though.

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        On top of the body processing some of the alcohol in the time between the field test and the final test, the field test is usually not accurate enough to be accepted by the court for conviction. It’s just one piece of the probable cause used to arrest a suspect and bring them to the police station or jail where the larger, more accurate machine can get a result that’s usable at trial.

        It’s important the the test field test be fairly accurate right around the legal limit. At much higher numbers, it’s fine for it to be pretty far off because the suspect is definitely getting arrested at that point.

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          I could imagine they tune that field test to err high so they can have probable cause. If it isn’t accepted as proof anyway, why make it highly accurate. I guess the people who say never agree to a breathalyzer test during a traffic stop are probably right.

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    this happens so frequently that i think The Onion wouldn’t make similar jokes anymore, as not to be seen as unoriginal

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      Barrack Hussein Obama has been running a shadow-cabal out of the basement of a pizzeria in the basement of a girl’s school in Iran and shipping them out in boats disguised as oil tankers via the strait of hormuz, and transferring them to fake fishing boats around Venezuela ok authority of Moduro. So it’s reeeaaally his fault for the wars and gas prices

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    Next they should drag out a woman who let her kid be abused talk shit about her kid in a political attack ad.