Examining the Evidence

And Faulty Detection Equipment

In today's Washington Post the DC office of Attorney General is embarassed- they prosecuted about 400 DUI offenses and put people in jail- locked them up- because they were allegedly intoxicated while driving- when the equipment was proven faulty. I wouldn't say --rigged--heaven forbid. Just 'faulty.' http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/09/AR2010060906257.html?hpid=moreheadlines



This takes us to the other coast where Lindsey Lohan has similarly been cited for violating the DUI laws, and was forced to wear some electronic gadget that is supposed to detect alcohol in her. The Court has so far made $300,000. off Lindsey Lohan -the first 100,000 she had to post as bail when her passport was stolen while promoting a film in Cannes, France causing her to miss a mandatory hearing in LA, and the second because this gadget allegedly detected alcohol when her probation forbids her drinking anything.
She flatly denies she drank.
This has me wondering- who is watching the integrity of these evidence gathering devices? Who makes them, who profits off them and who monitors their integrity? Do we have any nonpartisan federal office of law enforcement device accuracy monitoring like an FDA for gadgets?
There is alcohol in shampoo and conditioner. Look on the label of your favorite shampoo and conditioner and see how many kinds of alcohol derrivatives you can spot- typically they have three or more. Some forms of Alcohol are used as a preservative in a lot of canned goods.
What is called commonly "rubbing alcohol" is used to clean pierced earring posts. Alcohol is a disinfectant in certain products. All alcohol is not bad. Neither should it all be the subject of violation of a DUI if detected on one of those gadjets. Which lawyers are out there in California ripping a new one in that industry because if people are going to jail for disinfecting their earring posts I can think of a better way for California to raise money.

Now who is going to bring that class action against Peter Nichols for those 400 false DUI convictions and all the damage that results in sending people to jail for nothing?