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Responses to the urine and blood tests Petter Northug took after police stopped him at E6 in Ullensaker could come this week. This is what Karoline Ekeberg, a police attorney from the Eastern Police District, tells Dagbladet.
– It normally takes up to 3 weeks, and we are now in the third week. So it should arrive during these days, Ekeberg writes in an email to Dagbladet.
Northug said at his press conference in Trondheim that he did not feel intoxicated when he was stopped by police. His saliva sample was positive, but such tests say nothing about whether the values are high or low, and the tests can also give false positive responses. Last week, NRK reported on a research report that concluded that 87.1 percent of those who receive a positive response to a saliva test receive a negative response to a blood test.
In any case, the answer to the test can be absolutely decisive for what kind of punishment the cross country legend risks.
Poisoning is basically the most serious charge against Northug, and if analysis of the samples shows levels corresponding to less than 0.5 per thousand, it will not normally constitute the basis for unconditional incarceration per se.
In cases where intoxication other than alcohol is suspected, the values found in the blood are converted into a corresponding intoxication effect such as alcohol.
The main point then is to find out if the intoxication corresponded above or below 0.5 and 1.2. For a thousand over 1.2, unconditional imprisonment is usually given. For a thousand between 0.5 and 1.2 there is usually a conditional prison sentence, which does not imply prison. But Northug will risk unconditional punishment if the analysis shows an “intermediate per thousand”, because he has been convicted of driving under the influence of drugs in the past.
Northug also risks punishment for the other two charges.
Before the press conference of the former cross-country skier, it was known that he measured 168 km / h when he was stopped in the 110 zone of the E6. As Dagbladet has previously written, this is a speeding offense found in the border country so it typically provides unconditional incarceration, which entails incarceration. At the same time, Northug himself said in his press conference that he had filmed himself driving at 200 km / h in an 80 zone, and the police have confirmed to Dagbladet that they have access to the video.
Breaking the silence
Northug himself confirmed at the press conference that 10 grams of cocaine were found in his apartment. This is well above the limit of what a fine “only” normally gives, which is 2 grams, according to the Attorney General’s circular on drug cases.
At the same time, it is well below the limit of what is normally considered a felony drug offense, which is 50 grams. What the “correct” punishment will be for such an amount will depend on the various circumstances of the case, such as whether the person in question confesses (as Northug has done) and whether there are extenuating or aggravating circumstances.
In some cases, the courts have imposed conditional imprisonment (which does not imply imprisonment) and community punishment for that amount (and also higher amounts)
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