DWI Attorney El Paso: The Truth About Intoxication Levels
El Paso DWI Attorneys and Criminal Defense Attorneys defending DWI and Criminal Cases in El Paso and the surrounding areas. For more information please call: 915-317-1933 and visit www.dwielpaso.com The Truth about Intoxication Levels Have you or someone you loved faced charges for Driving While Intoxicated (DWI)? This short video will help you to better understand the truth about intoxication levels in Texas. First off, let’s look at the definition of DWI- Driving While Intoxicated. It’s a criminal offense if a person operates a motor vehicle in a public place while intoxicated. The Statute does not say driving while drunk. What does intoxicated actually mean? A driver is intoxicated when: • Through the use of alcoholic beverage, drug, controlled substance or any combination thereof, he or she has lost the “normal” use of either mental or physical faculties. • Or the driver has an alcohol concentration level of 0.08 or more in their body. What are “normal” mental or physical faculties? How are we judged? The term does not referr to the normal faculties of the arresting officers, jurors in a DWI criminal trial or fictitious average person. Indeed, the term normal actually refers to the range of measurement of the faculties of the person arrested. What is a 0.08 alcohol concentration? This is defined in the statute three ways: • The first is the number of grams of alcohol per 100 milliliters of blood • The second is the number of grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath …
