WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE DUI DISCLOSURE ONCE YOU’VE GOT IT?
FOR THE DEFENCE • VOL. 43 • NO. 4 39 WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE DUI DISCLOSURE ONCE YOU’VE GOT IT? Stephen Biss and Adel Afzal Updates to...
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Stephen Biss
- Jan 13
- 4 min
Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 2
My 66 series 5000 with the flooded sample chamber is still drying out. Initially I would receive a "Processor Error" flag on startup...
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Stephen Biss
- Jan 4
- 3 min
Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 1
It is very easy for a qualified technician to accidentally flood the sample chamber on an Intoxilyzer 5000 (or 5000C) or an 8000 (or...
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Stephen Biss
- Dec 28, 2022
- 2 min
Reliability: Aging - Losing Memory
The Intoxilyzer® 8000 depicted in this video was once a reliable evidentiary breath testing instrument in the United States. It is...
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Stephen Biss
- Dec 21, 2022
- 6 min
Continuity of Alcohol Standard Solution: Keep from Freezing
Many years ago I asked for timely disclosure/production of a representative bottle of the alcohol standard lot used during the breath...
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Stephen Biss
- Dec 14, 2022
- 1 min
What is SCC: R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux "Reliability" in an Approved Intrument?
Please carefully re-read what the Supreme Court of Canada said about "reliability" in R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux. Please think about and...
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Stephen Biss
- Dec 8, 2022
- 6 min
What is Differential Voltage Monitoring (DVM) ?
Many years ago Ontario defence lawyers cross-examined breath techs on "how much room there was" on the particular Intoxilyzer 5000C to...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 30, 2022
- 8 min
Reliability: Ambient Conditions
Tip 41: Changing breath room ambient conditions can reduce "system calibration check" and "system blank test" reliability. Any...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 23, 2022
- 4 min
Ancient Egypt and DUI Metrology
If you served wine or beer at a pub in ancient Egypt the beverages were measured out using liquid volume instruments like these. Each...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 17, 2022
- 3 min
Study the Block Diagram in the Wet-Bath Simulator Manufacturer's Manual
Tip 25: Obtain a copy of the Guth Laboratories, Inc. wet-bath "Model 2100 Simulator Operation Manual" and study the "Model 2100-Block...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 16, 2022
- 3 min
Light at the End of the DUI Tunnel
You need to know that there is light at the end of the DUI litigation tunnel, but you need to establish a mindset that gets you to the...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 10, 2022
- 2 min
Calibration Check on Periodic Inspection of Wet-bath Simulator
Tip 27: Does the Inspector use a traceable reference thermometer, that is accurate and precise, to at least two decimal places, to...
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Stephen Biss
- Nov 3, 2022
- 3 min
Continuity of Alcohol Standard: CalGuard Feature
Tip 40: Some police services take the position that they don't need to use seals between the simulator housing and the jar. Failure to...
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 26, 2022
- 2 min
Continuity: Write on Empty Bottle
Tip 35: The simplest method of communicating the last change date of the alcohol standard solution placed into the wet-bath simulator is...
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 19, 2022
- 7 min
Error in Facts - "Impaired Driving and Other Criminal Code Driving Offences", Jokinen and Keen
Does partial automation of error-checking in an approved instrument: specifically diagnostics tests, air blanks, cal. checks, and maximum...
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 15, 2022
- 4 min
Continuity: From the Box
Tip 37: Defence lawyers need to study the video - does the qualified technician take a random (unrelated to the matter before the Court)...
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 12, 2022
- 4 min
Change of Response at One Point but Not at Another Point that is Equivalent
Purpose: To suggest that there is empirical evidence in the matter before the Court of change in response by the approved instrument at...
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 6, 2022
- 1 min
Certificate of Calibration of a NIST mercury thermometer
Tip 14: Whenever police purchase a new NIST mercury thermometer, the Canadian distributor provides them with a "Guth Laboratories, Inc....
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Stephen Biss
- Oct 3, 2022
- 2 min
Continuity: Use of a Seal
Tip 38: One of the best ways to control wet-bath simulator alcohol standard continuity is to use alphanumeric police seals and record...
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Stephen Biss
- Sep 30, 2022
- 1 min
Continuity: Whiteboard or blackboard method
Tip 36: Some police detachments have been known to write the manufacturer name, lot number, name/badge of solution change officer,...
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