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: Dispatches from the Culture Wars

Audit Shows Problems With Colorado Blood Alcohol Tests

By Ed Brayton

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Dozens of convictions for drunk driving are suspect now that a routine audit of a crime lab in Colorado Springs showed that the results of those tests were typically overstated by the lab's testing.

Prosecutors have begun contacting lawyers for 82 defendants whose drunken driving charges were based in part upon incorrect blood alcohol tests by the Colorado Springs police crime lab.

In each of the cases, test results reported by the forensic chemist unit of the Metro Crime Lab were higher that the actual results, police officials disclosed Friday.

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Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 19, 2009 (boomark / email).

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