Minnesota DWI Defense Blog

Officer Accused Of Falsifying Police Reports For DUI Suspects

CHICAGO (STNG) â?? The Cook County state's attorney's office has dropped more than 150 DUI cases in which indicted Chicago cop John Haleas was the arresting officer, officials said. Read More

MINNESOTA BCA: INCOMPETENCY OR CHICANERY?

The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension claims the software is not relevant or necessary when ascertaining whether a particular breath test machine gives results that are valid, reliable and accurate. Read More

The fight over the Intoxilyzer source code in Minnesota continues to become more heated. Read More

The Minnesota Court of Appeals rejected a driver's appeal to order the state to disclose the "source code" which operates the state's breath test machines. Read More

Find a job you love and you'll never work a day in your life. Read More

Kentucky Appellate Court Orders Disclosure; Many Minnesota Judges Still Protecting CMI and BCA

House v. Read More

As a busy criminal defense lawyer, I see examples of prosecutorial misconduct nearly every day. Read More

City Pages

Issue -- February 27, 2008

By Paul Demko

MPD blues: James and Lois Cannon want an apology from the cops

Image by Craig Lassig

Around 10 p. Read More

One Minnesota Judge recently threw out a urine test in Minnesota, citing the lack of scientific safeguards to ensure the result is valid and reliable. Read More

Introduction

In 2006 33,942 drivers were tested by 200 Intoxilyzers breath test machines in Minnesota. Read More

Soon ... articles revealing:

Why the Minnesota BCA failed to establish any minimum routine preventative maintenance and/or calibration standards for the Intoxilyzer 5000?

Why Minnesota's breath testing program has the lowest standards in the country?

Why the Commissioner of Public Safety refus Read More

CMI, the manufacturer of the Intoxilyzer 5000 EN, the breath test machine used in Minnesota, lost an appeal in Florida. Read More

The Intoxilyzer 5000 EN is the breath test machine currently used in Minnesota. Read More

The author of this 2007 "Robustness" study claims that the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) test is valid and reliable. Read More

Drunk Driving Law, also known as DWI/DUI/OWI, is the most rapidly changing area of the law today. Read More