"We remain committed to providing quality and accurate testing." -- Lt. Steven Johnson, Tri-County Regional Forensic Laboratory
If crime lab personnel can't get the simplest of math right, what gives anyone confidence they can get anything else right? And then there's the added question of why Minnesota is using the least accurate of all measures of alcohol concentration to confirm a breath test result.
What's next? Forced piss tests on No Refusal Weekends?
A special thanks to Minnesota DWI Attorney Chuck Ramsey for the attached memo.
2 comments:
Paul - Yes, Minnesota uses first void testing to determine a specific level of alcohol; and yes a major crime lab bungled the mathematical equation to determine the urine alcohol concentration, but we don't have "no refusal weekends." In Minnesota, it's against the law to refuse DWI testing -- a crime more severe than having an alcohol concentration over the legal limit.
That's nice - making it a criminal offense to exercise your right not to incriminate yourself. Maybe next we can just go ahead and abolish the 4th Amendment.
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