DUI Urine Tests

In California, urine tests are known to be so inaccurate that they cannot even be used as evidence against a suspected drunk driver. On the other hand, they can be used to test for narcotic use in cases involving a driver accused to be under the influence of drugs. Fortunately, these tests are so inaccurate and so vague that the results can be easy to fight with the help of a San Diego DUI lawyer.

Urine tests can register if a person has been using drugs 98% of the time. But this means of every 100 tests, 2 people still receive incorrect results. To make matters worse, this statistic only applies when the test is performed in ideal laboratory settings. In actual practice, the results are often even less accurate. But this inaccuracy is not even the main problem that your San Diego DUI attorney will criticize in court.

Our San Diego DUI Attorney Can Find Faults with Your Testing Procedure

The reality is that while the test generally can tell if someone used drugs, it cannot pin point when someone was using an illegal substance. If you used marijuana, it may stay in your system for days after you used it, which means the drug test is going to indicate that you were intoxicated, but not that you were intoxicated while driving. This circumstantial evidence is simply not enough to convict someone of a serious crime like driving under the influence of a drug. In many cases, you may even test positive for a prescription drug that you had already confessed to using, but you cannot be sentenced for driving under the influence of drugs in California unless you were actually intoxicated while driving. Your San Diego DUI lawyer can help you prove that the urine test is simply not conclusive proof of a crime.

If you have been accused of driving under the influence of drugs and the urine test indicates that you did take drugs, please call a San Diego DUI attorney from our firm and schedule a free initial consultation.