Charged With Refuse to Provide or Failed Breath Sample?
By law, you must comply with a police demand for a breath sample to determine your blood/alcohol content if you’re driving a motor vehicle. If you refuse a breath sample, it’s a criminal offence.
When charged with refusing a breath sample in Toronto, you might also be charged with impaired driving as well.
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How to Defend a Breath Sample Refusal Charge
Your lawyer should assess whether or not a lawful demand was made if you’re being accused of refusing a breath sample. Provided the police lack reasonable and probable ground to request a sample, you’re entitled to refuse their request. Depicting the validity of the test takes deep analysis and each case is unique. Your lawyer needs to examine every single facet of the case before deciding whether or not the officer’s request was reasonable.
When an officer is shown to be entitled to demand a breath sample, it’s up to your lawyer to examine reasons for test failure. They can then decide if the failure or refusal was intentional or unintentional. There are many situations where you could unintentionally fail or refuse a breath test. If the refusal or failure is proven to be an unintentional act, you won’t be found guilty since a guilty verdict requires intentional refusal to provide a sample.
If the instrument isn’t working properly it could contaminate the breath sample or there might be an obstruction in the mouthpiece receiving the sample. This could lead an officer to believe you tried to fake the test when the conditions in the instrument were not suitable for obtaining a sample.
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Breath Sample Refusal or Failure Consequences
If you’re found guilty on basis of failure or refusing breath sample, you will get a criminal record.
Here are further potential consequences of failing to comply with a breath test:
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