Showing posts with label intoxilyzer. Show all posts
Showing posts with label intoxilyzer. Show all posts
Thursday, May 23, 2013

More problems with breath tests up in Conroe

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Earlier this month I posted an article about how the Montgomery County DA's Office and the Texas DPS were trying to paper over a colossa...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Something's rotten up in Conroe

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Texas DPS Standard Operating Guidelines for Technical Supervisors   1.1 An official inspection by a Technical Supervisor can only be ...
Thursday, January 17, 2013

Judge throws curve ball regarding Pennsylvania's breath test machines

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The DWI statute in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania establishes three levels of DWI offenses. There is a "loss of normal use" DWI ...
Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Making us all just a little bit dumber

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Apparently Amy Davis of KPRC-TV in Houston doesn't keep up with the news . If she had, she might not have criticized the Harris County S...
Thursday, February 16, 2012

Trying to keep your story straight

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It can be so damned hard to get those stories straight sometimes. Fudging a little bit here, leaving out something over there and then havin...
Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Runaway grand jury closes up shop

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Yesterday the grand jury investigating the Harris County District Attorney's Office announced that it was not issuing any indictments . ...
Friday, December 16, 2011

I'll have a fifth, please

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On Thursday morning, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Rachel Palmer appeared before a grand jury looking into the troubled HPD mob...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Grand jury subpoenas top county officials in DWI probe

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Remember that "runaway" grand jury investigating the HPD BATmobiles ? Well, they're baaack... The county judge and two commi...
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

The plot thickens

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It would appear that the shit has hit the fan over at 1201 Franklin. Today, State District Judge Susan Brown appointed former prosecutors ...
Monday, October 24, 2011

Runaway jury

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The original purpose of the grand jury was to have a body that could review a case to determine if there was enough evidence to proceed. The...
Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Ask not for whom the whistle blows

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For the past two decades the breath alcohol testing program in Harris County was run by Lone Star College (formerly North Harris Montgomery ...
Monday, October 3, 2011

Thinking before speaking

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Why would some local criminal defense attorneys be singing the praises of ex-HPD crime lab technical supervisor Amanda Culbertson? Ms. Cul...
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Thursday, August 4, 2011

The sky is falling! Not.

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Last night I ran across a blog post from a criminal defense attorney in North Texas. The post was written in reaction to the Scillitani  cas...
Monday, August 1, 2011

A regulation by any other name isn't worth a damn

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In order for scientific evidence to be admissible in a Texas court, the party wishing to put such evidence before the court must show that (...
Friday, July 29, 2011

The wreckage of the batmobile

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I've written at length about the problems with the Houston Police Department's BATmobiles and I've written about the departure ...
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Friday, May 13, 2011

And then there were none

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First it was Jano Chu who left back in the fall of 2010. Then it was Jorge Wong's turn to go in March. And now Amanda Culbertson is ...

Trade secrets, confrontation and junk science

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Back in 2005, a Sarasota County (FL) judge ordered CMI, the maker of the Intoxilyzer, to produce the source code to a designated expert for ...
Saturday, March 5, 2011

Holy piece of junk, Batman!

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There were some folks who thought I was a bit off the mark when I dared to criticize HPD's BATmobiles . Turns out I was right . We...
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Friday, February 18, 2011

To the batcave, Robin

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Stop me if you've heard this one before - the Houston Police Department, along with the Harris County DA's Office and MADD announced...
Thursday, May 27, 2010

Mine eyes have seen the glory that used to be the 4th Amendment

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What better way to celebrate Memorial Day than making a mockery of the 4th Amendment ? In 1868, General John Logan, Commander of the Grand...