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Originally Posted by Island Girl
If she drank what she said she drank, her BAC would be 0 by the time her blood was taken. Very simply, she was not telling the truth about her alcohol consumption. The blood loss thing is crap in my opinion. Even if it were correct and her BAC were below the legal limit as her witness proposed that is still above 0. IMHO.
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I'm not sure what the defense proposed regrarding blood loss, I wish I had heard the exact words. I agree that what's been reported about how much drink she had that night is not the whole story. In order for her to have a BAC of 0.15 and not been drunk at the time of the collision, she must have sucking down quite a bit in the few minutes prior to the collision, then wrecked and having lost some blood, the concentration of alcohol would be higher than normal. I tend to think that this wasn't the case. There's no way that the alcohol consumed in the restaurant would not have been into her bloodstream by the time of the collision and subsequently metabolized. But lets say that she and her friends, having completed the prank, left the dock and sucked down the vodka. Who would be drinking that much facing a completely dark night, low hanging clouds and fog, threat of immediate rain and no GPS ? If she wasn't a "true" 0.15 at the time of the collision, was she still > 0.08 ? Was there enough alcohol in her to affect her decision to pop it back onto plane in near zero visibility ? We can debate the juries decision wrt the BUI charge but IMO there's no doubt about the negligent operation.