It’s hard to believe that this story, getting attention across the nation, is happening in my backyard. I first heard about it when Attorney Chris Herion (pictured above) posted a rather lengthy message on a local listserve describing the whole ordeal he encountered in the course of representing clients charged with DUIs. What he discovered […]

I reported here recently about a Washington state case in which a court had ordered National Patent to turn over the software source code used in their Datamaster EPROM. I spoke to Jon Fox, a prominent Seattle area DUI lawyer handling the case, and he told me that the company actually surprised him and everyone […]

As I reported here regarding a recent Florida case, the quest to obtain the software code behind the curtain of most breath test machines has started to pick up steam. In the Florida case, the deadline for turning over the code passed yesterday, and no code materialized. Accordingly, the defense is moving for sanctions today, […]

Nationally recognized DUI guru Lawrence Taylor has one of the best blogs on the net focused on DUIs. I make The DUI Blog a standard stop on my daily tour through the blogosphere. One of the recurring themes you’ll find there is the inherent unreliability of the Breathalyzer machine regularly used by police to “confirm” […]

The machine pictured above (often referred to as “an instrument” by police in lab coats) is used by police to test the amount of alcohol present in a drunk driving suspect’s blood. How do you test blood alcohol taking a breath sample? Well, this machine attempts to do this by taking a sample of a […]