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Georgia DUI Intoxilyzer 5000 Manipulation of Test Results


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The Intoxilyzer 5000 has a digital readout. You can see this as its warming up but as you blow into this device the machine reading will go up higher and higher and if you were allowed to see it because you're standing in front of the machine, many people would stop blowing if they saw the numbers go up. The police officer will block the view from you and will look at the numbers. By doing this and coaxing you to blow longer and harder, especially when the officer has seen the first result and is waiting to see the second result. He or she knows they have to give a result within a .020 of the first reading. They'll keep you blowing until it matches up so they can get a valid reading.

That's a manipulation of this device that should not be allowed. That number, whatever the numbers are, should be blocked out and not shown to the operator and blocked from your view because the person who's running the machine is manipulating your results. That isn't done on any other kind of forensic test. You’re not going to have DNA that’s manipulated. You’re not going to have blood manipulated. Hopefully you wouldn’t even have a recipe you were cooking in your microwave that can be manipulated that way. Once again, this is the machine used. It doesn't have to be configured this way. In Georgia and the people who run the breath test program don't seem to care that the officer can cause your result to be higher just by causing you to blow longer.

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