Ramsay Law Firm is proud to announce that Charles Ramsay and nationally renowned forensic scientist Aaron Olson have published a peer-reviewed article addressing a serious software flaw in Minnesota’s DWI breath-test machine.
The article examines a critical problem in breath alcohol testing: the machine is designed to detect contaminated breath samples, but the software does not always do so. In some cases, the machine reported a breath-test result even though the test met the manufacturer’s own criteria for an invalid sample.
Breath-test evidence is often treated as a simple number. But that number is the product of hardware, software, assumptions, specifications, operator training, lab policy, and government protocol. If the software fails to identify contamination, the reported result may not be scientifically reliable.
This research highlights why source code, transparency, and rigorous forensic review matter in criminal cases. When the government uses a machine to produce evidence against a person, the government must prove the machine works.
The article reinforces what Ramsay Law Firm has argued for years: trust is not science. Transparency is.
Read the article here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/
