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Stephen Biss
Sep 14, 20234 min read
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE DUI DISCLOSURE ONCE YOU’VE GOT IT?
Criminal Lawyers Association: FOR THE DEFENCE • VOL. 43 • NO. 4 39 , August-September 2023, at p. 34. WHAT DO YOU DO WITH THE DUI...
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Stephen Biss
Jan 13, 20234 min read
Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 2
Unfortunately it is very easy for a qualified technician to reverse the inlet and outlet couplings Intoxilyzer to wet-bath simulator.
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Stephen Biss
Jan 4, 20233 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20226 min read
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, 20228 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20223 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20227 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20224 min read
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, 20221 min read
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, 20222 min read
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, 20221 min read
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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