167 Colorado DUI tests flawed, how many other tests across the country have similar issues?
The number of flawed Colorado Springs police DUI tests has doubled to 167 since a crime lab audit last year discovered that some blood-alcohol results were inflated, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported.
The Police Department launched internal and external investigations after reporting Dec. 11 that a routine audit revealed errors in 82 initial cases.
El Paso County prosecutor Frederick Stein confirmed the doubling of flawed cases to The Gazette, but he could not say yet what the impact of the erroneous tests might be on prosecution of those criminal cases. He said the district attorney's office hopes to have a report compiling those outcomes within the next two weeks.
A quote from the DUI blog:
"If blood specimens aren’t refrigerated, they will ferment — causing alcohol to be produced in the blood samples. So…167 DUI convictions based on false test results and rising — in just one city during one year. How many similar errors have gone undetected or unreported in other cities during that one year alone? How many tens of thousands of citizens across the country have been convicted of drunk driving based upon similar false evidence?"
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