Bum Equipment Means Bum Convictions

Washington DC has a problem with its breath machines. For those who are unfamiliar with what breath machines do, when you are suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol, your breath may be tested by a breath test machine that allegedly determines the level of alcohol in your breath. Through some further machine functions, the level of alcohol in your breath estimates the level of alcohol in your blood. When the machine is not calibrated correctly, the readings are off and people get convicted based on the wrongly calibrated machine reading. This is what happened in Washington DC.