Summary

A question about the accuracy of breath analyzers could lead to thousands of drunk driving charges in Orange County being overturned A device used by the Orange County Sheriff's Department since 1997 is in question The the department's crime lab wasn't licensed to use it until last June Drivers who were charged with D-U-I in Orange County between January 1997 and June of 1998 may have the charge erased But there is a condition Only if that charge was solely based on a reading from the particular breath-analyzer

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 151028
Story Slug DUI’s WITH BREATHALYZER MAY BE OVERTURNED (01/10/1999)
Location ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Format Vosot*
Date 01/10/1999
Archive Time 16:24
TRT 1:00
Supers Santa Anna/Orange County, California Barry Simons, Attorney
Video Description DUI breathalyzer machine, sot man, officers testing people for alcohol on the street, video breath analyzer in question
Description A question about the accuracy of breath analyzers could lead to thousands of drunk driving charges in Orange County being overturned A device used by the Orange County Sheriff's Department since 1997 is in question The the department's crime lab wasn't licensed to use it until last June Drivers who were charged with D-U-I in Orange County between January 1997 and June of 1998 may have the charge erased But there is a condition Only if that charge was solely based on a reading from the particular breath-analyzer
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