Judge Dismisses DUI Charge After Woman Claims Her Body Brews Alcohol

[WhiteTara]

http://www.people.com/article/judge-dismisses-dui-charge-auto-brewery-syndrome

A judge in Hamburg, New York, dismissed a woman's DUI charge after being presented with evidence that she suffers from "auto-brewery syndrome," according to the Associated Press.

Police accordingly told The Buffalo News that she "weaving all over the road," and “exhibited glassy-bloodshot eyes and slurred speech. She also blew a blood alcohol level more than four times the legal limit.

CNN reports that the syndrome, also known as gut-fermentation syndrome, can occur when abnormal amounts of gastrointestinal yeast convert common food carbohydrates into ethanol.

"She can register a blood alcohol content that would have you or I falling down drunk, but she can function," her attorney Joseph Marusak told the newspaper.

"I had never heard of auto-brewery syndrome before this case," he said to CNN, keeping his client's name anonymous. "But I knew something was amiss when the hospital police took the woman to wanted to release her immediately because she wasn't exhibiting any symptoms.

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[CTyankee]

1. good lord. never heard of that...

[WhiteTara]

2. It's a great line, though.

I don't think I'll try it

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. Weaving all over the road is functioning?

[REP]

4. I'm not taking cops' word for anything

Maybe she was - maybe she was reaching for a tissue or something in her purse and swerved in her lane once. I'm more likely to trust the hospital personnel and her medical records than cops at this point. Glad she wasn't shot. (Not that I like drunk and/or dangerous drivers at all!)