Walk It Through: The Breath Test
An arrest, a call to a lawyer, a refusal or a result, and seven days to ask for the hearing.
After an arrest for driving under the influence, the officer asks for a breath test.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
A first arrest with no crash and no injury. The criminal penalties, a commercial driver, a driver under 21 and a drug evaluation are left to their own pages.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Implied consentAnyone who operates a motor vehicle in Connecticut is deemed to have consented to a chemical test of blood, breath or urine and to the nontestimonial portion of a drug influence evaluation.
- Elevated blood alcohol contentA ratio of alcohol in the blood of eight hundredths of one per cent or more by weight, four hundredths for a commercial vehicle, and two hundredths for a person under twenty one years of age.
- Operating under the influenceOperating a motor vehicle under the influence of intoxicating liquor or any drug or both, or with an elevated blood alcohol content of eight hundredths of one per cent or more.