Michigan Chief Toxicologist Admits BAC Results Lack Error Rate

A recent story on DUIAttorney.com high­lights what many foren­sics labs fail to do — report their error rate.

None of the labs in Arizona report the error clearly in their offi­cial reports, even though the recents National Academy Of Science report indi­cated they should.

Most labs in Arizona even use a foren­sic soft­ware appli­ca­tion that can auto­mat­i­cally adjust the reported num­ber to include the error rates.

Mason County, MI — In an ongo­ing Michigan OWI case, the crime lab’s chief tox­i­col­o­gist admit­ted that the crime lab does not take into con­sid­er­a­tion the mar­gin of error when deter­min­ing blood alco­hol lev­els in drunk dri­ving cases.