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Breath tests for blood alcohol level should engender no confidence.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

Image from National Institute of Standards & Technology. A silver lining in the District of Columbia?s breathalyzer debacle  is that it may further convince judges and jurors that breathalyzers amount to junk science, or else that their results are highly unreliable, due to unreliability of the machinery, and by the fallibility and sometimes carlessness of humans that maintain and operate them.  I have worked for several years with two Intoxilyzer and Intoximeter experts who confirm that blood testing is more reliable than breath testing to accurately determine one?s blood alcohol level at the time of testing. Of course, the blood alcohol level at the time of driving could be lower or higher than at the time of testing, depending on whether the alcohol absorption process is continuing upward, or if the alcohol dissipation process has already begun...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on July 01, 2010 (boomark / email).