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Breath test science:how California courts ignore it
The California Supreme Court recently eliminated several important breath test defenses for DUI cases that DUI attorneys Los Angeles used to successfully defend DUI charges. PARTITION RATIOS AND VANGELDER (58 Cal 4th 1) According to the 2013 Supreme Court of California decision in People v. Vangelder, partition ratios cannot be argued to a jury. Before this case, Los Angeles DUI defense attorneys would argue that breath sample results are not the same as the blood sample results because the ratio of alcohol in blood could be very different from the ratio of alcohol in breath samples. In the case of Mr. Terry Vangelder, he was prosecuted for a DUI after he was pulled over for speeding and his breath alcohol test […]