Our lawyers have made a careful study of
the science of breath testing and alcohol absorption, and we have worked with many experts over the years.
Not exact matches
To do otherwise amounts to accepting the operator's credibility, reliability, recall, and procedural correctness at the very least through the operator's having signed the certificate's attestation clause that the operator followed the procedures
of the Virginia Department
of Forensic
Science in conducting the
breath test.
(We use the term «
science» loosely, as there is very little scientific evidence establishing the accuracy
of the
breath test machine or the field sobriety
tests that are used in Texas.)
She's been trained not only in the law
of impaired driving and criminal defence, but also in the background
of how
breath and blood
testing developed, the failings
of the systems and the
science that can cause bad blood or
breath test readings.
The DUI attorney must intimately know the
science of blood and
breath testing, the art
of field sobriety
tests, how to effectively cross-examine the prosecution's expert witnesses and how to persuasively present their own expert witnesses.
Author Linda Callahan also covers the
science of the PBT, which is the portable
breath test that an officer typically asks the driver to take while still at his vehicle.