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yaba
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hi all,
my girlfriend is due to have a prelim hearing tomorrow for a drink driving charge that happened 3.5 years ago. According to her and vouched by her friend, she only had a glass and a half of wine between the hours of 6pm & 11.30pm one night, which included toasted sandwiches & tea at a friends house. she was stopped on the way home after running an amber light & arrested on the suspicion of drink driving. on being brought to the station, she was tested twice which were both negative. she was then tested 2 or 3 more times, and one of the readings was positive. she says it was a reading of 35 but this means nothing to me, so no idea how much over the limit this is. my question is why she would have been tested 4 or 5 times after the 1st 2 readings were negative, and how reliable 1 positive result would be if she had to appeal any decision? surely 3 or 4 negative results would be used instead of 1 positive result? any help greatly appreciated as i am under the impression that it takes 2 hours for i unit of alcohol to leave your system and feel that the gardai were going to keep testing her until they got a positive result somehow? thanks, yaba.
my girlfriend is due to have a prelim hearing tomorrow for a drink driving charge that happened 3.5 years ago. According to her and vouched by her friend, she only had a glass and a half of wine between the hours of 6pm & 11.30pm one night, which included toasted sandwiches & tea at a friends house. she was stopped on the way home after running an amber light & arrested on the suspicion of drink driving. on being brought to the station, she was tested twice which were both negative. she was then tested 2 or 3 more times, and one of the readings was positive. she says it was a reading of 35 but this means nothing to me, so no idea how much over the limit this is. my question is why she would have been tested 4 or 5 times after the 1st 2 readings were negative, and how reliable 1 positive result would be if she had to appeal any decision? surely 3 or 4 negative results would be used instead of 1 positive result? any help greatly appreciated as i am under the impression that it takes 2 hours for i unit of alcohol to leave your system and feel that the gardai were going to keep testing her until they got a positive result somehow? thanks, yaba.