Zavala v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

9 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “Proof of the precise time of an accident or of driving is not the sine qua non of driving while intoxicated. Such proof is in itself not critical, except as it establishes the time during which the fact finder must consider the defendant’s state and determine whether during that episode of driving the defendant was intoxicated. Thus the critical issue is that there must be proof from which the fact finder can conclude that at the time of the driving in question, whenever that might be, the defendant was intoxicated, in other words, a “link” between the driving and the intoxication.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Layland v. State