I have blogged before about the fight going on in some states led by DUI defense attorneys who have asked courts to force the maker of the Intoxilyzer 8000, CMI, Inc. of Owensboro, Kentucky, to reveal the source code of the machine so that defense at
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Right before St. Patrick’s Day, the Kansas Police unveiled their new Mobile DUI enforcement vehicle. This vehicle cost nearly $400,000. Lord knows where they got the money from, but I can guarantee it is entirely taxpayer funded. Here is their
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A recent scientific article from Forensic Science International confirms something that Kansas DUI lawyers already know, that breathing patterns can affect the result of a breath test in a big way. In “Influence from breathing pattern on alcoho
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Philadelphia flunked its own breathalyzer test recently. A bad breath testing machine resulted in hundreds of people getting convicted even though the breath test machine was inaccurate. From the story: Dozens of DUI cases in Philadelphia are set to
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It has been somewhat big news in the past week that a former President of the MADD chapter in Florida was charged with a DUI. This lady, who once crusaded against drunk driving, has now had her mugshot splashed all over the news as well as the fact t
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I have blogged before about the scandal in Washington, D.C., where it was recently discovered that the Intoxilyzer 5000 machines in that jurisdiction had not been tested for accuracy for “a couple of decades” or more and, in fact, were ca
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The state toxicology lab in Indiana was audited. The auditors found that out of 2,000 marijuana tests, 200 of them were in error. That is 10%. What is more disturbing is that 50 of those tests involved “conscious manipulation of lab resultsR
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