Pennsylvania Urine Test

Have you recently been charged with DUI in Pennsylvania? Did you submit to a urine test? If you answered yes to both questions, we can help. DUI defense attorney We specializes in this area of law and therefore knows the best possible defenses for your case—especially if you were given a urine test. Many things can go wrong during a chemical test and only an experienced attorney can expose any inaccuracies in your test results.

When you are suspected of DUI in Pennsylvania, law enforcement officers will usually ask you to take a breath test—it’s portable, it can be done on sight and it’s the only type of chemical test police are allowed to administer themselves. However, you have the right to request a blood or urine test. These tests must be conducted at a hospital or medical facility by qualified medical personnel.

If you were to compare a blood test and urine test, it is a scientific fact that urine tests do not give as accurate a reading as a blood test. This is because a blood test measures how much alcohol and exactly what substances were found in a person’s bloodstream when police were conducting their DUI investigation.

So if you requested a urine test, your attorney has sufficient grounds to scrutinize the evidence against you—it’s a known fact that urinalysis tests give inaccurate blood alcohol content readings. And if your BAC test results were wrong, how can you be charged fairly with DUI? Urine tests are also poor methods for determining if a person was under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol during the time that they were actually operating a motor vehicle.

Now that you know urine tests are not always accurate, you should feel confident knowing that you don’t have to simply resort to pleading guilty simply because you “failed” your blood alcohol content test. If the prosecution cannot prove your results were accurate, your attorney can move for your charges to be dropped or at least to be lessened to a Reckless Driving charge.