Geno Smith, the quarterback for the Seattle Seahawks, will not face any charges in relation to his 2022 DUI arrest, a representative of the King County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office informed ESPN on Thursday.
Smith wasn’t charged with reckless driving either because there wasn’t enough evidence to show his guilt in each case, according to the prosecution.
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Smith had a blood alcohol level of 0.038, which is less than half the 0.08 legal limit in Washington State. He had a THC level of 2.6, which is far below the legal limit of 5.
Following the Seahawks’ arrival in Seattle from their 2021 season finale against the Arizona Cardinals, Smith, 32, was arrested early on January 10, 2022. He was initially stopped for driving erratically over several lanes of traffic and doing 96 mph in a 60 mph zone, according to an arrest report.
According to the report, the state trooper who stopped Smith smelled alcohol and noticed that he had bloodshot, watery eyes. Smith refused to submit to a preliminary breath test, so the judge issued a search warrant for a blood test. He was escorted to a hospital, where, according to the report, even with the director of team security for the Seahawks on hand to try to calm Smith down before the blood draw, he became upset.
Despite evidence showing Smith was driving quickly and briefly swerved out of his lane, the prosecution attorney’s office said they were unable to establish beyond a reasonable doubt that he was ignoring the safety of other road users or any property.
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Smith’s results were not made available to King County prosecutors until this past April as a consequence of a backlog with blood tests at the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab. While “there is no reasonable doubt to the accuracy of the results,” the prosecutor’s office highlighted in its statement that Smith’s samples were being kept at the crime lab in a malfunctioning refrigerator and that “litigation would likely be related to the handling of his blood samples.”
