Re: Arizona Intoxilyzer 8000 machines in service

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On 4/23/06, Daniel Jaffe, Arizona DUI Defense Lawyer wrote:
> Arizona has seen the replacement of most of its Intoxilyzer
> 5000 alcohol breath testing machines with a newer model
> from CMI, the Intox 8000. CMI, according to prosceutors,
> refuses to release the source code used to program these
> machines. So far, the machines are being used in DUI trials
> in Arizona, and people are being convicted based on the
> reading from these machines. There looks to be brewing a
> battle over whether the defense is entitled to actually
> confront the witness against them (in this case the
> machine), or whether the Arizona courts will allow the
> admission of the results without a meaninful opportunity by
> the defense to explore how the machine arrived at the
> results. Some Arizona jurisdictions routinely use blood
> tests instead of relying on breath testing machines at all.
> These include DUI arrests made in Scottsdale, Chandler,
> Gilbert and Mesa.

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