DUI Defender

Presented in this months Reason Magazine is an article distilling the essence of the argument in favor of competitive crime labs, and independent crime labs. Among the problems cited by the article are the pro-prosecution bias of the laboratory personnel and people testifying on behalf of the “evidence” analyzed and documented by the crime labs. The article also cites an error rate as high as 10% for fluid analysis (blood) which would mean that the results of one out of every ten blood samples analyzed would be wrong. Now this in and of itself doesn’t mean that the measurement is above the actual value but simply that it is wrong. In combination with the pro-prosecution bias this is a very disturbing statistic.

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