{"id":2533,"date":"2005-06-09T01:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T05:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/06\/09\/\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:43:46","slug":"dui-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/06\/dui-news\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/judges-hammer.jpg\" alt=\"order in the court\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong>Judges toss out DUIs because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/06\/06\/judges_toss_out_duis.html\" rel=\"external\">breathalyzers&#8217;&nbsp;source&nbsp;code&nbsp;is&nbsp;secret<\/a><\/strong><br \/>Florida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalyzers that busted them &#8212; the manufacturers won&#8217;t turn over the source, and since the machine&#8217;s correct operation is critical to establishing the case against the DUIers, the case is dismissed when it can&#8217;t be produced.<\/p>\n<p>All four of Seminole County&#8217;s criminal judges have been using a standard that if a DUI defendant asks for a key piece of information about how the machine works &#8211; its software source code, for instance &#8211; and the state cannot provide it, the breath test is rejected, the Orlando Sentinel reported Wednesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Seminole judges have been following the lead of county Judge Donald Marblestone, who in January ruled that although the information may be a trade secret and controlled by a private contractor, defendants are entitled to it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Damn why couldn&#8217;t I have heard of this 3 months earlier?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judges toss out DUIs because breathalyzers&#8217;&nbsp;source&nbsp;code&nbsp;is&nbsp;secretFlorida judges are tossing out DUI cases when defendants ask to see the source code for the breathalyzers that busted them &#8212; the manufacturers won&#8217;t turn over the source, and since the machine&#8217;s correct operation is critical to establishing the case against the DUIers, the case is dismissed when it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252,212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bizarre-weird","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}