How Title 17 Violations Can Help You Win a California DUI Case
Title 17 of the California Code of Regulations governs how DUI blood, breath, and urine tests are administered, analyzed, and stored. Title 17 violations can result in dismissed California DUI charges…or at the very least, in significantly reduced DUI charges.
This California DUI law establishes the protocol that officers and medical personnel must follow if they want your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) level admitted into evidence. Some (but not all) of these requirements include:
- making sure that you do not eat, drink, smoke, vomit, or regurgitate for at least fifteen minutes prior to taking a breath test (so that your breath test results aren’t contaminated),
- making sure that your blood is drawn by a certified technician, and
- making sure that any testing equipment is properly maintained and calibrated on a routine basis.
When the cops don’t abide by these and the many other Title 17 rules and regulations, there’s a good chance that your California DUI attorney will succeed in having your DUI chemical test results excluded from evidence. And while it may not be obvious to you at the time that the police didn’t follow the proper procedure, it’s something that your attorney will undoubtedly investigate and discover.
It’s pretty straight-forward…Title 17 violations can result in dismissed California DUI charges. Thankfully, when the police don’t follow the rules, you win.
