The testimony of police officers, but also the smell of alcohol or the inability to self-control, could be sufficient to establish a driver's state of intoxication behind the wheel. This is established by the Supreme Court in a ruling in which it explains that “objective and symptomatic” elements are sufficient to prove the state of alcoholic alteration. Therefore, it would not be necessary to use the alcohol test to establish that the blood alcohol level exceeds the threshold limit of 1.5.
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