On June 27th, 2012, the MN Supreme Court of Minnesota upheld the validity of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN source code, thrusting more than 4,000 defendants back into the court system after a 6-year holding pattern. The appeal was spearheaded by a group of private MN criminal defense attorneys casually known as the Source Code Coalition, who […]
3000 Minnesota DWI Cases in Question on Account of Police Breath Test
This October Judge Jerome Abrams of Scott County will begin hearing arguments on the validity of the breath tests administered by police to measure blood alcohol content of suspected DWI offenders. Over 3,000 Minnesota DWI cases spanning the last 30 months have been placed in limbo until the validity of the instrument’s software source code is […]