DUI Breath Tests Not Accurate

What most prosecutors don't seem to understand or want to acknowledge is that breath testing in DUI cases can be extremely inaccurate. It has been scientifically proven that the Intoxilyzer machine has the following accuracy rates when it comes to reporting an alcohol content that corresponds(in approximates) to the actual concentration in a person's blood:

• 11-percent of the time the machine is accurate
• 44-percent of the time the machine underestimates the person's blood alcohol content
• 44-percent of the time the machine overestimates the person's blood alcohol content

How is it that a machine that is that prone to getting it wrong is used in the justice system in DUI cases? That is an excellent question and one that many jurisdictions are now seeking to remedy by providing blood tests instead of breath tests.

There is no good breath test machine. Breath testing for alcohol is a crude enterprise hardly worthy of the label "science." Until breath testing is eliminated or improved from its current state, there will be people wrongly accused and convicted of DUI, and there will be people wrongly exonerated of DUI.

Until organizations such as MADD and prosecutors offices open their eyes and demand a stop to this injustice, innocent people will face the ordeal of a DUI trial in courtrooms across the country daily.