Licence suspension starts 10 days after arrest. And you can appeal that with the DOT. They will schedule a review that could take up to a month to happen.
Hawkeye Beat Writer Gets Pulled Over & Blows a .325 Early Tues Morn (Drove to Columbus next day)
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I heard a guy from the state DCI, giving testimony as an exert witness at a vehicular homicide trial, tell of a driver the state patrol pulled over late one night on westbound I-80 for driving 106 mph. The officer smelled alcohol on the guys breath. They had him do the field sobriety test and he passed it. The guy was as steady as a rock. Then he blew a .26 at the pokey.
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Emmert did a radio interview about the Hawks MBB with Gary Rima on KXEL 1540 Friday afternoon, like nothing had happened.
.325 is way up there. I am guessing he has a drinking problem to be able to function at that high of a level. Hope he figures it out and gets help.
check out this graphic; as the orig post states, he originally blew a .325, which is life threatening
he later blew a .22, where when at that point, it can cause severe impairment and loss of consciousness.
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Yeah unfortunately years ago I made a really bad decision as a college kid to drive impaired at .20. Luckily, I didn’t hurt anyone or crash or anything and I was pulled over and received my fair punishment - and a big time wake-up call about drinking and driving. But as a college kid who was in the prime of my drinking years and being .20, I was in bad shape and and had no business being behind a wheel. So even a .22, there are two lines of thinking I have. Either he was in terrible shape to be driving OR he was not as bad as I was at .2 all those years ago which to me would lead me to speculate/wonder if there is a bigger issue in play (again just speculation).
This. Temporary license for 10 days. Permanent license gets taken and mailed to DOT. Then anything can happen.
Well,he doubles as the head of the NCAA so they didn't have any choice.
(look it up)Not to be obtuse but why would he bring it up?
wow. so he probably has his license and is driving right now? and he will have his license a month from now?
based on the article, he was swerving back and forth and hitting the curb.
yeah, who knows; was this a one time thing? maybe, maybe not. there is speculation from posters that he might be a functioning alcoholic, but would you be all over the road if you were "functioning"?
luckily he did no property damage (as far as we know, he didn't)
Mark is a great writer and he is fun to listen to on the radio; it's just weird to now see him getting arrested
so, it's a good bet that he will be driving on a temporary license for a while?
when would he get his permanent license back?
its crazy how different the laws are from state to state
.325 is bonkers, the fact that he could even walk to get behind a wheel probably shows he may have a problem with alcohol.
actually can take several months, know a guy that got one in July had his license until October.
what happened in Oct? was he able to get a temporary license to drive? And we are talking Iowa license, correct?
In October he had to quit driving for 30 days, then he could get the temp license to drive for 5 months. This is in Iowa.
ONLY because nobody was hurt, I find this situation rather humorous. I laughed out loud at the outlandish irresponsibility of driving at .325
Yes that's right. For a 1st time OWI. If it was a 2nd OWI it would be a completely different situation.
The level may have an impact on when/how you get your license back. .081 is treated a bit different than a .325.
.081 allows for a deferred judgement. .Assuming person has not previously had deferred judgement. .325 does not.
.325 is an inaccurate number. Humans can’t metabolize .105 in BAC in under 2 hours.
That’s the equivalent of going from over .10 - impaired - to stone cold sober in less than 120 minutes. Doesn’t happen. And that assumes that the person in question hadn’t recently had drinks before the stop that their liver was still processing to raise their BAC.
Either the PBT wasn’t calibrated correctly or he had mouth alcohol. Blowing .22 on a Datamaster is up there and would be hard to challenge, but the .325 number simply gave enough probable cause to make the arrest. Marks blood content wasn’t at .325.
That’s the equivalent of going from over .10 - impaired - to stone cold sober in less than 120 minutes. Doesn’t happen. And that assumes that the person in question hadn’t recently had drinks before the stop that their liver was still processing to raise their BAC.
Either the PBT wasn’t calibrated correctly or he had mouth alcohol. Blowing .22 on a Datamaster is up there and would be hard to challenge, but the .325 number simply gave enough probable cause to make the arrest. Marks blood content wasn’t at .325.
I don’t think anything really happened to the Iowa City AP reporter that was arrested for driving drunk with his kids in the car
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