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Rob72 wrote: ↑Fri Jun 15, 2018 10:56 am

SewTexas wrote: ↑Wed Jun 13, 2018 2:10 pm
how long does it take to get BAC's back....surely they did a breath test that as soon as the cops got there? there seems to be a whole heck of a lot of covering going on, he must of been blasted.

A clinical BAC (i.e., used to make treatment decisions) is back usually within 30 minutes. A "Legal" BAC has to be double-verified, and over-read by a Forensic Toxicologist, generally. The "distressing" part is that one may be literally 0.01 mg/dL under the legal definition of "under-the-influence," and so will be reported as "not-under-the-influence". Blow-pipes are legally supported, but BAC is the gold-standard.

Generally, whenever the local police or sheriff brings someone in to my lab for a "legal draw" for a BAC they fill out the paperwork, have all the phlebotomist sign where appropriate and then bring me the blood for testing. I'm not sure how long all that up front stuff takes, but the BAC level on our analyzers takes about 15 minutes to run. After that, I don't know who gets the results. The police, DA, various lawyers? Don't know, don't care.

I did a search and limited the results to the last 24 hours and came up with a bunch of hits from all over. This one from just 3 hours ago.
http://abc7chicago.com/man-accidentally ... t/3573807/

It also sounds like they may have collected blood for a BAC.

BTW, I was just thinking that at least it was a Glock, which requires a trigger pull to go off.