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SF Questions DUI Breathalyzer Tests

By Riley Guerin | Mar. 20, 2012
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Law Office Management

Mar. 20, 2012

SF Questions DUI Breathalyzer Tests

San Francisco's district attorney and public defender jointly investigate police department's use of preliminary alcohol screening devices.

San Francisco's district attorney and public defender are jointly investigating the police department's use of preliminary alcohol screening devices?breathalyzers?that had not been properly tested for accuracy, the Daily Journal reports.

Both officials noticed that since at least 2006, logs of accuracy tests of the police's field breathalyzers show exact matches between sample readings and the actual tests. "It's mathematically impossible" to consistently have the exact same result, said Public Defender Jeff Adachi. "Until the review is done we don't know the number of cases that could be affected," District Attorney George Gascon said.
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Riley Guerin

Daily Journal Staff Writer
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