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Tap or Bottled Water? Intox calibrators using tap water costs 300 DUI tests in Florida |
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Thursday, 11 January 2007 |
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300 DUI Breath tests in 300 DUI prosecutions in Broward County,
Florida were thrown out of court because the Area Supervisors in
Florida calibrated the Intox breath testing machines with tap water
containing unknown chemicals instead of using laboratory certified
distilled water. The Florida Fourth District Court of Appeal upheld the
trial court judge’s ruling to exclude the breath test results in a DUI
case because the machine had been tested with tap water instead of
distilled water. Florida Administrative rules require breath test
machines be tested with distilled water. Without knowing what is in the
tap water, it can not be established that the breath test machines were
properly calibrated to be accurate. Yet another reason not to
voluntarily submit your liberty to junk science.
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