Court Opinion

ID: 9583844
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 22:42:33.010266+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T14:58:16.528342
License: Public Domain

Beasley, Judge,
concurring specially.
I agree with all except the use of, and approval of, the quotation from a Florida case. It undermines the blood alcohol test as a valid measurement of the influence of alcohol on a person’s driving capacity, and yet Georgia allows convictions based on presumptions about it.
The quotation seems to be a judicial opinion based only in part on common knowledge; to some degree, and especially the last sentence, it would require medical/scientific expert opinion or at least facts upon which to found such a judicial pronouncement.
In addition, it seems to me that medical and scientific knowledge about alcoholism and alcohol abuse has increased substantially in the 50 years since the Florida opinion was written.