A week ago Kyla explained the big secret about defective breathalyzers. It generated a lot of discussion. Kyla was contacted by a investigative news outlet that would like to report on it, but she suffered an injury mid week, spent a little time in the hospital and is now recovering. You can review the evidence […]
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In our last blog post we explained some of the important issues with breathalyzer testing and how you can blow an artificially high or potentially lower reading under certain circumstances. If you want to beat the breathalyzer, in the sense of trying to fool the breathalyzer into thinking you have no alcohol in your body,
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We were really surprised that we beat the breathalyzer. We wrote a blog post about it. We were even more surprised about the popularity of the blog post. It seems that there are a lot of people interested in beating the breathalyzer. Still more surprising to us is that we found another way of beating
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The New Westminster Police are rolling out a new breathalyzer that’s new to British Columbia. It’s called the Alco Sensor FST, and New Westminster is the first police force in B.C. to purchase them. Criminal lawyer Paul Doroshenko says the current breathalyzers being used are a “25 year old technology.” Still, the new technology isn’t
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There are many things we do in pursuit of being the best IRP Lawyers. One of them is our Freedom of Information database. We regularly compel the police to disclose to us copies of maintenance and calibration records for approved screening devices by demanding the documents via the Freedom of Information and Access to Information
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It’s awful being a New Driver in BC. If you’ve got an “N” and you’re accused of driving after drinking, you’ve got a big problem. In BC the graduated license program is akin to having an axe above your head with a hair release. If you’re a Novice / New Driver, i.e. you have an
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If we didn’t have the ability to communicate with language, humans would probably be struggling along, like all of the other animals of this world, making grunting sounds and living in trees. Thank goodness for language. And then there’s the ability to record our thoughts and ideas and pass this information to later generations in
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Ever since the BC Government completely revamped the DUI laws in our province by introducing roadside punishment, people have not stopped talking about immediate roadside prohibitions. Wherever we go in every corner of the province, people want to talk about what happens when you get an IRP, what are the true consequences (not what the
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Is there such a thing as a simple DUI case? Certainly some impaired driving cases are more straightforward than others. However, having successfully defended well over a thousand DUI cases over the years, we think that we can reliably say that, as you work on each file, virtually every drinking-driving case is complicated in some
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(UPDATE) Apparently there was an issue with respect to who was a party to the litigation and which lawyers could make submissions on the appeal. One of the litigants has died and another decided against proceeding. So the issue was who should be there to make submissions. We have now been told that the matter
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It’s a bad system to be punishing people on the basis of roadside breath testers. That’s the message that we’ve been trying to get out ever since the Immediate Roadside Prohibition / IRP scheme was introduced. Last week it hit the newspapers that a huge number of the IRPs that were revoked in December 2012
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In early September 2012 we were reviewing disclosure in a client’s Immediate Roadside Prohibition (IRP) case issued in Vancouver and we noticed that something was a little funky. Now, we are aware that the ASDs in Vancouver have a long history of being improperly calibrated and of having serious reliability problems. So we generally look
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