Intoxilyzer 5000en receipt/printout verification

[bob33]

Hi I was pulled over and the blew over...I had 5 drinks and had 3 cuban cigars (cigar fiend)

I was taken to the police station and given the 20 miniutes wait time and blew into the above machine.

The first two blows were errors and the last blow blew 0.15. The office gave me the receipt/printout and after research it never outlined any calibration tests test conducted by the machine on the receipt it just had a "Air Blank .000" then "Subject Test 0.15" then "Air Blank .000" then "Internal STD - OK"

Researching other receipts/printouts from this machine online they seem to be in more details with "calibrations tests" etc.

Also after the first 2 errors and 3 officers kept screaming at me to blow blow blow for 10 seces and i read this increasing the results???

The machine is an "Intoxilyzer 5000en - Serial # 68-013279

Guys guidance or information would be helpful...apreciated bob

 

[HighwayMan]

I don't know why you were given a copy of the printout, but regardless...

That sounds like a normal printout from an Intoxilyzer 5000.

You'd better get an attorney and stop trying to play Perry Mason. This is a serious charge and you need a real defense, not one based upon what you read on the Internet about the breath test equipment.

 

[FlyingRon]

I agree. You've got a solid reading well over the per se limit. You better hope there is some other defense.

 

[TigerD]

Get a good DUI/DWI attorney. The Intox 5000 is known for problems and errors.

TD

 

[CavemanLawyer]

That's how every intoxilyzer breath test slip I've ever seen reads. The blanks reading 0 before and after your results are the control tests and it looks like it worked properly. If there were an error then the slip would have said so and aborted the test. The prior errors that occurred sound like it was because you did not blow long enough for it to register. Breathing harder or longer does not increase the amount of alcohol detected in the sample, you simply must produce enough of a sample for it to register.

There are always possible calibration mistakes that could be present outside of that tiny bit of information reported on your breath test slip. Your attorney can subpoena the records from the intoxilyzer supervisor and make sure they have been maintaining the equipment properly.

5 "normal" drinks (1 beer, 1 glass of wine, or 1 shot) could easily get you to about a .10 if consumed in a relatively short amount of time. Depending on who is doing the serving, the drinks can and often are much stronger than "normal."

 

[Just Blue]

Hi I was pulled over and the blew over...I had 5 drinks and had 3 cuban cigars (cigar fiend)

I was taken to the police station and given the 20 miniutes wait time and blew into the above machine.

The first two blows were errors and the last blow blew 0.15. The office gave me the receipt/printout and after research it never outlined any calibration tests test conducted by the machine on the receipt it just had a "Air Blank .000" then "Subject Test 0.15" then "Air Blank .000" then "Internal STD - OK"

Researching other receipts/printouts from this machine online they seem to be in more details with "calibrations tests" etc.

Also after the first 2 errors and 3 officers kept screaming at me to blow blow blow for 10 seces and i read this increasing the results???

The machine is an "Intoxilyzer 5000en - Serial # 68-013279

Guys guidance or information would be helpful...apreciated bob

What the heck does Cuban Cigars have to do with your BAC?...Are you implying that excessive cigar smoke increases your alcohol levels?

 

[FlyingRon]

What the heck does Cuban Cigars have to do with your BAC?...Are you implying that excessive cigar smoke increases your alcohol levels?

The cigars didn't, though the five "drinks" probably did. Note that despite the lack of enforcement, it is still illegal in almost all circumstances to bring Cuban cigars into the US.

 

[Just Blue]

The cigars didn't, though the five "drinks" probably did. Note that despite the lack of enforcement, it is still illegal in almost all circumstances to bring Cuban cigars into the US.

Oh I know Ron....I was just wondering how piggish smoking of stoggies mattered to the DUI.

 

[quincy]

Oh I know Ron....I was just wondering how piggish smoking of stoggies mattered to the DUI.

Perhaps bob33 lives in Cuba. He never provided his state (or country) name.

 

[TimStudiesLaw]

Perhaps bob33 lives in Cuba. He never provided his state (or country) name.

If that were the case, wouldn't they just be cigars?

 

[quincy]

If that were the case, wouldn't they just be cigars?

Good point.