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  • Two D.C. cops also testified, Freeman Klopott reports in the Examiner, "that officers are now hesitant to make DUI arrests with the police department's alcohol breath-test program in disarray."

    DeMorning DeBonis: March 1, 2011 2011

  • MORE BREATHALYZER BALONEY -- A new twist in the bad breathalyzer saga, from Examiner's Klopott: Attorney General Peter Nickles' office was aware that problems with the District's alcohol breath-test program likely stretched back more than a decade, but only alerted defendants in cases going back to 2008, documents obtained by The Washington Examiner show.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 28, 2011 2011

  • TV hops on the faulty breath-test story (WTTG-TV, WUSA-TV)

    DeMorning DeBonis: June 11, 2010 2010

  • If the officer fails to wait 20 minutes before asking you to do a breath-test, do the test and then argue this law to the judge in court.

    How to beat your DUI arrest 2008

  • If there was a malfunction 60 days before or after your breath-test, your results will be invalid in court.

    How to beat your DUI arrest 2008

  • The police who drove their little car round the streets every so often would never stop a villager, still less breath-test him.

    Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories Rendell, Ruth 2000

  • It also can alter the control sample used to calibrate the breath-test machine.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • Culbertson testified they feared retaliation from Irma Rios, HPD's crime lab director, for disciplining officers and civilian technicians who did not follow strict rules to keep breath-test machines from overheating and measuring alcohol levels inaccurately.

    chron.com Chronicle 2011

  • You simply require the individual to take a breath-test twice a day.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • A lack of occupational health units able to carry out the medical examination, which involves a chest x-ray and breath-test, was first known in 1996 but little had been done to remedy the situation, Meeran said.

    Reuters: Press Release 2011

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