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DUI: What should you ask the phlebotomist?

Our Blood Draw Trial Questions are now available for purchase on our Square Marketplace. Click here to preview and purchase.  The document is 9 pages long and includes questions on Hemolysis; Equipment Used; Medical History; Preparation of the Site; and Drawing and Transferring Blood. You will receive it via email within 24 hours (usually within Read More...

DUI Blood Draws: Legal Implications

Make sure you check out the post about our DUI Medical Defense Screening Tool. Our wonderful story goes on to describe some things about the physical environment where the blood draw is to take place.  First, we find that Suzy has found herself in a dimly lit location.  Let’s think about that for a minute.  In Read More...

DUI Blood Draws: Issues relating to prep

Make sure you check out the post about our DUI Medical Defense Screening Tool. Last week’s post held a work of fiction will bring a smile of recognition to anyone involved in the sometimes gritty business of DUI prosecution; I hope that it was at least somewhat entertaining and not too far from the mark.  But its Read More...

DUI Blood Draws: Case Scenario

Make sure you check out the post about our DUI Medical Defense Screening Tool. The following story is fictional and should not be interpreted as reflective of any actual case: My girlfriend and I had been having a smoke after our “extended” lunch break.  Hopefully the boss wouldn’t notice that we were coming off lunch break late Read More...

DUI Blood Draws: Why “Medically Approved” is important

Make sure you check out the post about our DUI Medical Defense Screening Tool. The topic of blood sampling for purposes of blood alcohol determination  is relevant to the legal community on a number of levels.  Case law has provided the basis for not only legal precedents in “Driving Under the Influence” (DUI) litigation, but it Read More...