Monday, August 10, 2009

Los Angeles Women drinking more, DUI arrests up, experts say

LOS ANGELES – On Thursday, Daniel Schuler refused to accept an autopsy report that showed his wife had the equivalent of 10 drinks and smoked marijuana within an hour of the wrong-way highway crash that killed her and seven other people.

"I never saw her drunk since the day I met her," Daniel Schuler told reporters outside his attorney's office.

But a preliminary autopsy of Diane Schuler ruled out a stroke, heart attack or aneurysm, Westchester County officials said. The medical examiner said Thursday that he stood by his report that found her blood-alcohol level was more than twice the state's legal limit, she still had undigested alcohol in her stomach, and she had high levels of the key ingredient in marijuana in her system, said Michael Bialys, Los Angeles DUI lawyer.

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