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Wake up and smell the coffee beans

By Bruce M. Robinson, P.A.

It's getting a little scary out there folks- come on wake up! I saw a blurb of an article that a DUI attorney in Minnesota successfully petitioned the court for the source code of the breathalyzer machine on behalf of his client. This is a challenging discovery request which, to my knowledge has only been successfully advanced in Florida and now Minnesota. The importance of the source code in DUI breath cases is that the code is the brains of the breath machine that yields a BAC (breath alcohol content) number. The breath machine is essentially a computer with a place to provide a breath sample. Therefore, in fairness to a defendant, one might actually want to know how the computer determines a number in order to know if he is being fairly accused of DUI...continue to full post

Full post as published by Maryland DUI Lawyer Blog on August 12, 2007 (boomark / email).