[PRL] Re: [plt-internal] cute bit

[Jeffrey Palm]

Field breath analyzers are equivalent to field sobriety tests and  
*never* stand up unless they take you to the station for a more  
accurate test.  Many of the non-portable ones don't use software though.

Jeff
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On Dec 16, 2005, at 9:56 AM, Matthias Felleisen wrote:

> Well, apparently this one has bubbled up far enough in the
> court system to threaten the idea of breath analysis in an
> entire state, possibly a federal court region.
>
> But what can you expect? Seniors think immigration is bad
> for the US, FL is full of those Seniors, and Immigrants like
> you and me make this unreliable software :-)
>
> -- Matthias
>
>
> On Dec 16, 2005, at 9:38 AM, Shriram Krishnamurthi wrote:
>
>> It's an old argument.  Kathi once sat on the jury of a trial
>> (back when she was in grad school in Indiana) where the
>> defense tried to argue that the breath analyzer cannot be
>> trusted.  I think they deliberated all of ten minutes before
>> giving the bozo his comeuppance.
>>
>> Shriram
>
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