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Update on Washington State DUI Toxicology Problems

By Total DUI

Earlier this week, Total DUI detailed how problems at the Washington State Toxicology Laboratory, including questions about a mixture solution testing the accuracy of breathalyzers, could affect certain DUI cases. For more of a back story, Washington DUI attorneys had begun arguing for the dismissal of DUI cases or at least the reduction of charges after it was learned that the manager of the state toxicology lab had been signing papers saying that she had tested the ethanol-water solution when in fact she hadn't done so. With that said, Whitman County prosecutors have agreed to plea bargains in 30 of 80 DUI cases, and such concessions could be a sign of things to come for hundreds of other DUI cases throughout the state.

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on October 12, 2007 (boomark / email).