Right now in the Houston area there are thousands of DWI cases that are in jeopardy because of the dishonesty of an inspector of alcohol breath test machines. According to this article over at Chron.com, the inspector didn’t conduct the inspections that she said she did.
Officials in Houston say that the woman who was contracted through the department had been falsifying records for at least a year. There are at least 2,600 DUI charges that could be affected.
I echo these thoughts shared over at the Minnesota DWI Defense blog:
“How can you trust the people and machines that were made and trained to prove your innocence? Imagine … your life is now in shambles, because a faulty computer says so.”
And people wonder why DUI lawyers are so adamant about investigating and defending their cases. What if it was you who had just one drink and your alcohol level was well below the legal limit – yet here’s the officer arresting you for a DUI because of a defective breath test machine? Imagine having that on your criminal record, yet you know for a fact that you’re innocent!
If this is going on in Texas, who knows where else this type of unscrupulous activity is going on. It’s stories like these that make you lose faith in the justice system.
