Sometimes, the facts of a DWI case indicate that something out of the ordinary is going on. Fortunately, attorneys who dedicate a substantial portion of their practice to DWI defense have enough experience with the types of things that often occur before, during, and after a DWI arrest, so they are often able to spot unusual circumstances quickly and investigate them further.

For example, a woman in New York was admitted to the hospital after taking a breathalyzer test that registered her blood alcohol at four times the legal limit. However, the hospital wanted to release the woman soon after she was admitted because she was not exhibiting any symptoms that required medical attention. Ordinarily, a person with a blood alcohol level that high would be rather ill.

Fortunately, the attorney who represented the woman noticed that the facts of her case did not seem to make sense. He investigated possible causes of high blood alcohol levels without accompanying symptoms, and he found that a rare medical condition called auto brewery syndrome or gut fermentation syndrome does just that.

The woman’s unusual blood alcohol level was closely examined, thanks to to the efforts of her husband, who urged doctors to do additional testing, and her attorney, who hired medical professionals to monitor her and test her blood alcohol level at regular intervals for a period of twelve hours. Instead of decreasing as time passed since the woman had had her last drink of the evening, her blood alcohol increased over time. That pattern of increasing blood alcohol over time is consistent with what happens when an individual with auto brewery syndrome consumes food or drink, because abnormal amounts of gastrointestinal yeast convert the carbohydrates from the things that they ate or drank into ethanol, which is alcohol.

Since something unusual was going on in the woman’s DWI case, her attorney had to build a defense case that would explain what auto brewery syndrome is, and, even more importantly, that that was the reason why his client’s blood alcohol level was as high as it was at the time that she was arrested. The attorney brought a pharmacologist to court, and the pharmacologist explained how alcohol would be metabolized by a woman of the same size and weight as the defendant. That information was presented along with the information that had been gathered from the defendant’s blood tests, which showed that the drinks that she had consumed were not metabolized in a normal way. The end result is that the evidence of what happened with the woman’s blood alcohol, along with the explanation for why it had happened, which is because she suffers from a rare medical condition, led to dismissal of her DWI charges.

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