Charges dismissed after state lab mix-up

A foren­sic scientist’s worst night­mare — get­ting sam­ples (or sam­ple results) mixed up.

Don’t say it can’t hap­pen, just hope it only hap­pens as rarely as it is discovered/reported. It very well might be much more common.

Original arti­cle posted here.

Tooele County pros­e­cu­tors on Wednesday dis­missed auto­mo­bile homi­cide charges against a Tooele man after dis­cov­er­ing a mix-up at

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Mesa officer could face criminal charges

If you hadn’t heard about the lat­est Mesa police offi­cer in trou­ble for pos­si­bly dri­ving under the influ­ence, read the arti­cle below. I have no idea if the offi­cer was impaired or not while driving.

I just find it inter­est­ing that the Town of Gilbert Police are say­ing they couldn’t charge him with DUI, based on

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Prototype Scanner Gives Middle Finger To Drunk Driving

MADD should be able to have a device sim­i­lar to this one be required in all new auto­mo­biles within 5 years — maybe it will be a con­ces­sion the automak­ers will have to meet in order to get that fed­eral bail-out money.

Original post located here.

Two stu­dents at a Chinese uni­ver­sity have invented a device that detects high

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Driving While Under the Influence of Bread

Here’s some­thing that’ll make you think twice about eat­ing fast food while dri­ving. The video below shows inves­ti­ga­tors obtain­ing an breath alco­hol read­ing of 0.025 from an alcohol-free sub­ject, who recently ate a piece of bread. That’s right, no alco­hol in his sys­tem, just bread.

It’s a known prob­lem for breath ana­lyz­ers (the

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