DUIs trying new excuse to beat charges. My body BREWS alcohol

ShootSpeeders

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Sounds like BS but if true, then people like her should be permanently denied drivers licenses.

Woman beats DUI rap with claim her body brews alcohol

dec 30 2015 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defense: Her body is a brewery.

The woman was arrested while driving with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. She then discovered she has a rare condition called “auto-brewery syndrome,” in which her digestive system converts ordinary food into alcohol, her lawyer Joseph Marusak said in interviews this week.

A town judge in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg dismissed the drunken-driving charges this month after Marusak presented a doctor’s research showing the woman had the previously undiagnosed condition in which high levels of yeast in her intestines fermented high-carbohydrate foods into alcohol.

The rare condition, also known as gut fermentation syndrome, was first documented in the 1970s in Japan, and both medical and legal experts in the U.S. say it is being raised more frequently in drunken-driving cases as it is becomes more known.
 
I've read some research on that, it is a real thing. But it's staggeringly rare.

In this case, the woman in question is probably full of shit.
 
I never heard of "auto-brew--- but alcohol is a simply matter of fermentation----
it seems possible -----------scoff not. Somehow her statement was probably
supported by expert medical opinion. ---------I do not auto-brew------I drink it from
the bottle. Alcohol is sorta toxic---------to nerves. I wonder how she is doing
 
Sounds like BS but if true, then people like her should be permanently denied drivers licenses.

Woman beats DUI rap with claim her body brews alcohol

dec 30 2015 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Drunken-driving charges against an upstate New York woman have been dismissed based on an unusual defense: Her body is a brewery.

The woman was arrested while driving with a blood-alcohol level more than four times the legal limit. She then discovered she has a rare condition called “auto-brewery syndrome,” in which her digestive system converts ordinary food into alcohol, her lawyer Joseph Marusak said in interviews this week.

A town judge in the Buffalo suburb of Hamburg dismissed the drunken-driving charges this month after Marusak presented a doctor’s research showing the woman had the previously undiagnosed condition in which high levels of yeast in her intestines fermented high-carbohydrate foods into alcohol.

The rare condition, also known as gut fermentation syndrome, was first documented in the 1970s in Japan, and both medical and legal experts in the U.S. say it is being raised more frequently in drunken-driving cases as it is becomes more known.

Agreed. No criminal charges. But no driver's license either. Her body makes it impossible for her to drive in consistent compliance of the law.
 
I've read some research on that, it is a real thing. But it's staggeringly rare.

In this case, the woman in question is probably full of shit.

Regardless, she provided the evidence that any court could use to strip her of her driver's license.
 

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