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

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Colorado's Blood Fiasco Twice as Bad as Originally Thought

It’s rather dis­con­cert­ing to find out that the error rates in blood alco­hol test­ing not only are flawed, but twice as bad as orig­i­nally thought. In DUI tri­als, there is a pre­sump­tion of guilt, so any­time you have a sit­u­a­tion where sup­pos­edly “objec­tive”, “impar­tial” and “irrefutable” evi­dence shows a sys­temic error that could lead to

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