Under the Influence of Knowledge
This is the maximum blood alcohol concentration allowed for drivers in California.
What is 0.08%?
The eye test where officers check for involuntary jerking
What is Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus?
The law that states driving means you agree to a chemical test if arrested for a DUI
What is Implied Consent Law?
A medical condition can cause alcohol to come back up from the stomach and affect breath tests
What is Acid Reflux?
Administrative hearing occurs with the DMV after a DUI arrest
What is the APS Hearing?
The machine police use to test alcohol in your breath
What is a breathalyzer?
The test where drivers must walk a straight line touching heel to toe
What is the Walk-and-Turn?
Under a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, what must police generally obtain before forcing a blood draw without consent
What is a search warrant or McNeely warrant?
A diet can produce chemicals that mimic alcohol on a breath machine
What is Keto diet or ketosis?
The standard timeframe a driver has to request a DMV hearing after a DUI arrest
What are 10 days?
The word for how alcohol gets from your stomach into your blood
What is absorption?
The test where a driver has to stand on one leg while counting
What is the One-Leg Stand?
Assembly Bill 2773 requires police officers to do what before engaging in questioning during a traffic stop
What is state the reason for the stop?
Dental appliances can trap alcohol and cause falsely high breathalyzer readings
What are dentures? (Mouth Alcohol)
The automatic penalty imposed by the DMV if a driver refuses a chemical test
What is a one year suspension?
The organ that filters alcohol out of the body
What is the liver?
The term for the involuntary eye jerking that officers look for.
What is Nystagmus?
A legal motion can an attorney file to exclude evidence collected from an unlawful vehicle stop
What is a motion to suppress?
A technique of breathing excessively before a breath test temporarily lowers the measured alcohol concentration
What is Hyperventilation?
Items like bottles or cans found at the scene.
What is physical evidence?
The formula that estimates BAC
What is the Widmark formula?
The names of the three standard field sobriety tests used by police to check for impairment.
What is Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus, the Walk-and-Turn, and the One-Leg Stand?
A special or planned event that allows police to stop vehicles without reasonable suspicion
What is a DUI checkpoint?
Title 17 is the California regulation that outlines what for alcohol testing procedures
What are specific testing and maintenance procedures?
Video footage from an officer's bodycam or patrol unit video that can prove a driver successfully passed the field sobriety tests
What is Exculpatory Evidence?