Driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or other drugs is a serious crime that can easily affect the lives of individuals in the blink of an eye. A DUI or DWI can alter the life of an individual in any varying aspects, which can easily impact your life legally, personally, and even professionally. When an individual is charged and convicted of a DUI they can expect to pay many fines and even face the possibility of going to jail for a period of time. However, more and more individuals today are being charged, and unfortunately convicted of a DUI or DWI falsely thanks to faulty equipment and tests.
When an individual is pulled over for allegedly driving under the influence the investigation immediately begins when the police officer sights the vehicle. From there, the individual is asked to participate in something known as a field sobriety test. This test exists in order to check the balance and the reflexes of an individual. However, this test is actually helping falsify individual’s scores everyday. Studies show that most individuals have enough difficulty trying to do the test sober. So, if an individual was truly under the influence an officer could certainly notice.
One thing that is continuously giving more and more individuals a DUI charge, and a later conviction is that of a breathalyzer. Breathalyzers are instruments law enforcement officers use in order to detect an individual’s blood alcohol content, or BAC. While breathalyzers are suppose to specifically pick up the content of alcohol within an individual’s breath it realistically picks up almost everything in an individual’s breath. These instruments can easily produce false results due to smoking, what you have eaten, if you have false teeth, and many other varying reasons due to your body’s pH level.
Both of these “routine tests” not only fail to do their job properly, but also the continued use of them is causing more and more innocent individuals to be charged with a false DUI or DWI. Make sure if you have been charged with a DUI or DWI falsely to contact an experienced attorney immediately in order to get your innocence back today.
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