Hopkins Police Pleased With Supreme Court’s Decision on Intoxilyzer
The department had 10 remaining cases affected by the Minnesota Supreme Court’s ruling that errors in the breath-testing device’s source code don’t affect its overall accuracy.
Hopkins police welcome a Minnesota Supreme Court decision that upholds the use of the Intoxilyzer 5000EN—even though the department had already switched over to a new breath-testing device and resolved most of the affected cases. “I wouldn’t characterize it as a win,” said Police Sgt. Michael Glassberg. “I think it just states what we believed in the beginning—that we had faith in the Intoxilyzer.” The court ruled 4-3 that errors in the breath-testing device’s source code don’t affect its overall accuracy, allowing more than 4,000 drunken-driving and implied-consent cases across the state to move forward. The ruling comes the day after the Hopkins Police Department changed out its Intoxilyzer for a new DataMaster DMT-G—a device so new the …
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