re: Hayes hearing in progress thread

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Read something similar and this why I questioned the validity of a BAL/BAC test post-mortem.

I wonder how much time passed before the BAL test was done.

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id guess it will still be presented, and paired with commentary good and bad about the process (as well as receipts and witness accounts about drinking)

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Read something similar and this why I questioned the validity of a BAL/BAC test post-mortem.

I wonder how much time passed before the BAL test was done.

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People ignore how physiology works. When some dies and blood stops flowing, it isn't like its a time capsule where everything freezes in place. Alcohol isn't really degraded in the body, it is filtered out. If it's not removed then of course it's going to seem more concentrated than it really was.

Unless blood was taken within a short period of time after death and analyzed, the number isn't really anywhere near accurate. Smith may have very well been legally over the limit, but it's guaranteed he wasn't three times over the limit at the time of his death.