According to the DWI statute, a person is intoxicated if they have an alcohol concentration 0f .08 at the time of driving. The alcohol concentration can be measured one of three ways -- by breath, by blood or by urine. If measured by urine, the limit is .08 grams per 67 liters of urine. If measured by blood, the limit is .08 grams per 100 mL of blood. Finally if measured by breath, the limit is .08 grams per 210 liters of breath.
According to the statute, these three methods of determining alcohol concentration are identical (and that is the last we will speak about urine). If the concentration measured by blood and by breath are the same, that means for every 1 part of blood in your body you have 2100 parts of breath. This is also known as the partition ratio.
If you have been arrested for DWI, whatever you do, DONT BLOW IT!
Paul is a native Houstonian. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas at Austin. He received his law degree from South Texas College of Law in Houston where he served as an editor of the international trade law journal, Currents, and was named to the Deans Honor List on three occasions. He was also inducted into Phi Delta Phi, an international legal honors fraternity.
Paul is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (TCDLA), the Harris County Criminal Lawyers Association (HCCLA), the Fort Bend County Criminal Defense Lawyers Association, the Galveston County Criminal Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association (ABA), the State Bar College, the Houston Bar Association (HBA), and the Fort Bend County Bar Association. He is a member of the Criminal Justice, Litigation and Solo Practitioner sections of the ABA. He is a member of the Speakers Bureau for both the HCCLA and the HBA.
Paul is featured in the Technology section of the September 2008 issue of the Texas Bar Journal.
He is an avid runner and has run and finished more than a dozen marathons and ultras. Paul is a committed family man – a devoted husband and a proud father.
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