San Diego DUI Blood Alcohol Chart

This chart is based on widely-publicized research data. It is for informational purposes only.

There are many variables to take into consideration, such as an individual's metabolism, food consumption, and the time period over which alcohol is consumed.

This chart should not be used for determining how much alcohol one can consume before safely engaging in such activities as operating a motor vehicle.

The key factor in almost all cases of drunken driving is what a person’s blood-alcohol level was and whether it was over the legal limit. In California and most other states that level has been set at .08 of a percent. The chart above provides a general oversight into how the number of drinks, factoring in a person’s body weight, affects this blood-alcohol level. The formula is more complicated, of course, because an individual’s metabolism and the time-period during which the alcohol is consumer are also major factors but for most people the chart is fairly accurate.

Our lawyers are intimately familiar with the chart and the other factors at play through our successful resolution of hundreds of drunk driving cases. This expertise is critical in enabling you to obtain the best possible results in your case and assisting you in having to face jail or prison incarceration, huge fines and the possible loss of your driving privileges. Our understanding of these figures can play a large part in possibly having your charges reduced or even dismissed.

The test is a measurement of the amount of alcohol that is found to be in your blood, but it is a computation made at the time the test is administered. The tests that will be used against you include the field sobriety test and, in most cases, blood or breath tests that are undertaken in a time period after an arrest when the blood-alcohol level may actually be higher than it was at the time of the arrest. It is not uncommon for these tests to be improperly applied or for them to produce findings that are not accurate.

Our lawyers, investigators and DUI experts will review all of these factors and others to ensure that the tests were legally, professionally and accurately administered and analyze whether the results are accurate and substantiate the charges that have been filed against you. In many cases when there have been flaws in how tests were administered and results interpreted we have been able to have charges reduced or dismissed before cases even are taken to trial.

The bottom line is that the blood-alcohol level is the percentage of alcohol in your system and the assumption on the part of prosecutors is that the tests to measure this level were properly administered, the results are accurate and that their standards for judging how blood-alcohol levels impair driving apply to your case can be proven. The experience of our lawyers and their familiarity with the intricacies of drunk driving tables and evidence has in many cases successfully challenged these assumptions and allowed our clients to win reduced charges, dismissals and not-guilty verdicts. Please contact us as soon as possible for a free consultation about your case.