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Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer BlogFraudulent Breath Tests Lead to As Many as 4000 Wrongful Drunk Driving Convictions
The lynchpin of Michigan drunk driving prosecution is a reliable breath testing program. Prosecutors have big problems when this reliability is legitimately called into question.
This is exactly what has happened recently in Texas where it is reported that between 1200 and 4000 breath tests were fraudulently verified.
According to the Houston Chronicle a Department of Public Safety contractor by the name of Deetrice Wallace fraudulently manipulated the state’s breath testing machines causing thousands of wrongful DUI convictions. Instead of changing the reference sample every month as required Wallace instead falsified the tests and pocketed $146,000 in profit.