“Let me see, the speed limit is 60 and so one times the speed limit is 120. Yeah, that’s the ticket!!
Genius!!

 

If the legal limit is .08, you have to start from there, yes .08 x 2 is .16 however you are starting from .08 not .00, so .16 is 1x the legal limit, the legal limit being .08

 

Me too......my activity has been logged!

oops, that's the message I get at work for accidentally hitting on a questionable site.

 

You been drinkin on the job LD?
Yer reasoning suffers just as much as yer math...
Perhaps you mean to say that .16 is 100% OVER the limit?

 

Please tell us that you are not really a LEO.

 

Ah no. 1 x .08 is 1 x the legal limit. 2 x .08 is .16 and that's twice the legal limit. I hope math isn't required in your line of work.

 

Huh??????????

 

Lawdawg, if the idea was to take the heat off the original thread you have succeeded for sure.

 

At least we stopped talking about the cop. Actually I use to be a road cop and that was a question I was asked by a defense attorney on the stand. Everyone knows .16 is twice the limit and .24 is three times the limit. I came across a college kid once who was .30, he was walking and talking, no bubbles no troubles...or so he thought.

We had a deputy hit by a woman at leaving lunch one day, she blew a .44 and that was at lunch

0.03 BAC - Slowed reaction time.
0.04 BAC - Federal prohibited limit for commercial drivers license.
0.05 BAC - Increased risk taking and American Medical Association recommended prohibited limit.
0.08 BAC - Recommended prohibited limit for criminal charges and impaired vision.
0.10 BAC - Poor large muscle control, loss of balance, and prohibited limit in most states.
0.17 BAC - National average blood alcohol level of drivers in a fatal crash.
0.19 BAC - National average for first time DUI offender and of persons who have killed police officers.
0.20 BAC - Loss of emotional control.
0.22 BAC - National average for replete DUI offenders at time of arrest.
0.30 BAC - Loss of orientation as to time and place,.
0.35 BAC - Blackouts and stupor.
0.50 BAC - Published overdose level leading to death.
0.74 BAC - Highest recorded blood alcohol level by a US hospital.

 

I think that the media is forgetting to report one part of this story. The officers working the scene drew the blood under color of the department SOP which does not make the same distinction that state law makes. This makes the blood draw inadmissible in a criminal trial for both reasons, the reason of the draw and where/by whom it was drawn. Legally, it is pretty cut and dry. It still sucks, but that is why it is unfolding the way it is.