Inaccurate Georgia Breath Test


 The beauty of a multiple choice test in school was that you either got the question right or you got it wrong. Unlike writing reports or having to show your work in math, multiple choice
Intoxilyzer Booth at 2008 IACT Meeting
questions were not left up to the discretion of the teacher. If only the Georgia breath test was more like a multiple choice test.

Instead, many innocent Georgia drivers fall victim to the breath test. Picture this scenario: an officer stops your vehicle, suspects you of drinking and driving and asks you to take a breath test. You breathe into the machine and within seconds your breath test result is displayed. What happens in those few seconds can change your life.

You have no way of knowing whether that machine was even working properly, whether the officer was using it efficiently or how it actually determined your blood alcohol content reading. Your test results were left solely to the discretion of a cold machine. And what’s worse, the officer simply takes that information and includes it into a police report only to use it against you later in court. This is why you need an experienced DUI defense attorney.

Professional DUI lawyers are trained in how the Intoxilyzer 5000 operates and are better able to argue the unreliable test results in court.
Your defense attorney s hould have received training on how police must administer the breath test, how the machine works and the failures that are associated with the breath test machine. Your breath test results could have been affected if the machine wasn’t calibrated p roperly, if the officer who used it wasn’t trained on this machine or even if you had mints in your mouth just before taking the test. Breath test machines simply detect alcohol on your breath and alcohol is found in mouthwash, mints and cough syrup – not just alcoholic beverages.

Since there have been many questions raised on the accuracies of breath tests, researchers have conducted studies on their validity. They have found that one out of every four people who take the breath test registered a blood alcohol content reading higher than it actually was! Researchers have also found that even in the most ideal conductions, blood alcohol content readings can vary by 15% of your actual BAC.

Don’t let the Georgia breath test send you to jail. Contact the HTW&W Law Office to fight your results!