Roughly seventeen drunk driving cases have been thrown out after police cut corners by photocopying alcohol breath test calibration forms.
When defence lawyer Paul Doroshenko was working on a case involving suspected drunk drivers he represented, he found that calibration forms police fill out to prove breath tests are working had been photocopied, including the officer’s signature.
“We noticed that the police in Vancouver were not actually going through and completing one of these documents for each time that they calibrated and checked the device,” Doroshenko said.
“We have no idea whether or not this police officer was actually going through the steps to calibrate them.”
Potentially hundreds of drivers who were caught could fight their penalties and win as the photocopying took place between June and December of 2012, Doroshenko said.
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