night_shade
(Threadhead)
03/18/04 10:00 PM
Re: Legal advise don't take their test(s)

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Blood tests will not show levels of narcotics, only trace or presence




Dasani, you are incorrect in this statement. Serum levels can be done for ANY narcotic. That's not saying that the police actually performed a serum level test at the time of the arrest. In fact, they would first have to identify the intoxicant, then run a serum level test for that substance from a sample taken at the time of the arrest (or shortly thereafter.)

I believe serum levels could be argued by the defense as some people are highly tolerant to opioids and a specific serum level for one person may not be as intoxicating as the same serum concentration in another person.

But then again, all states have BAC thresholds at which a person is considered intoxicated--whether they can pass the roadside sobriety test or not.



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