| With his legal experience and qualification, a skilled DUI | | | | arrest and the eventual blood test. Both of these |
| attorney will be able to provide a credible defense | | | | factors can greatly affect the results of a breath |
| strategy which will provide a person with the best | | | | blood test. Proving any of these will therefore easily |
| possible chance of avoiding a DUI conviction. | | | | discredit the results. |
| One of the ways through which DUI lawyers achieve | | | | Again, since a person's breath is used in calculating the |
| this is by challenging the evidence held against the | | | | result of BAC test, DUI defense lawyers can prove |
| clients. Examples of some of these includes, disproving | | | | that these results were incorrect because of a |
| the testimonies submitted by police officers who are | | | | person's medical condition or belching. The theories |
| describing the actions of the charged clients when | | | | behind these are fairly simple. Some people with |
| they were pulled over. If a person was caught driving | | | | specific medical problems might suffer from a spike in |
| erratically or acting out of order, most officers will | | | | BAC levels that is not caused by drinking. Proving this |
| immediately perform a series of sobriety tests in order | | | | will therefore increase a person's defense. As regards |
| to ascertain the person's mental state and judgment. In | | | | the issue of belching, studies have revealed that |
| the event that you are unable to walk in a straight line, | | | | belching shortly before a BAC test will increase the |
| stand on one leg or even repeat the alphabet | | | | amount of alcohol found in a person's breath. As a |
| backwards, then cause for a DUI suspicion might be | | | | result of this, most officers are normally urged to wait |
| raised. | | | | at least twenty minutes after a belch before |
| Fortunately, in the event that people fail these tests, it is | | | | administering a BAC test. |
| possible for a skilled DUI attorney to discredit the | | | | Another way through which a person can be |
| results based on improper procedure and application | | | | defended by a DUI attorney involves an attack on the |
| on the part of the officer. | | | | methods used during the collection of evidence. If |
| Whilst a field sobriety test can usually easily be | | | | police officers are shown to have pulled you over |
| discredited, repeating the same feat with a blood or | | | | illegally with no proper reason, then the evidence of |
| breath test is a lot more difficult. It is however also just | | | | their tests or observation carried thereafter are legally |
| as possible. Understandably most courts are willing to | | | | discounted and inadmissible in a court room. |
| accept the evidence provided by such tests because | | | | As can be gleaned, the type of defense strategy |
| of their objective nature. However, with a good DUI | | | | which a criminal defense lawyer will adopt in a |
| defense lawyer, the credibility of these tests can be | | | | person's DUI case will depend on the circumstance |
| raised if equipment used is shown to be faulty. An | | | | surrounding the situation of a person's DUI. However, it |
| attorney can also improve the defense of his client by | | | | is also important to remember that your actions when |
| questioning the procedure used during the test as well | | | | arrested can either strengthen or weaken the options |
| as the length of time that elapsed between a person's | | | | available to your defense DUI lawyer. |