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Georgia DUI Intoxilyzer 5000 Breath Machine


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In the state of Georgia the breath test is being used today is the Intoxilyzer 5000. This device is the one you would have been tested on if you were tested by the police on a breath machine. This is the only one that’s an evidential test. I've had these machines since they came on board in Georgia back in 1995. This is the latest version, the 6801 or the 68EN series, and this is a device that is used to get an evidential breath test. The Intoxilyzer 5000, the one you're looking at, is the oldest piece of equipment used in the United States for breath testing. Even though it was once was used in more than 30 states, it’s only used and a handful of states now because those states don't have the money to replace it.

That's the bottom line. The company that makes this is under court order from Minnesota, Florida, Arizona, Kentucky (their own state), and many other places to turn over the source code to this machine, because we found evidence in this machine, that it doesn't work properly. The problem with it is they refuse to turn it over. Even at the cost of $3200.00 a day in one Florida case with one Florida judge they have not turned it over. The fines are now well over a million dollars that they've accumulated.

The state of Minnesota ordered this machine to have the source code turned over and the company refused and now the attorney general of Minnesota has filed a federal lawsuit that says, “either give us the source code so we can see if your machine works or not, or give us our millions back that we paid for this piece of equipment”. Now if that makes you feel comfortable pleading guilty with the breath test in your case, go right ahead. I'm not pleading people guilty on this device.

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