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This week there will be two significant hearings on breath testing.\u00a0 The SJC will hear oral argument in the case of Commonwealth v. Camblin<\/em>.\u00a0 This case has been at the SJC before; in the first Camblin<\/u> decision<\/a>, the SJC held that a district court judge was wrong to deny the defense as hearing on the scientific reliability of the breath test.\u00a0 At the time of the decision, the breath test being used was the Alcotest 7110.\u00a0 The case was remanded back to the district court judge for a hearing on whether the Alcotest 7110 was scientifically reliable.\u00a0 The judge concluded that it was scientifically reliable, rejecting a number of defense challenges to the accuracy of the machine.<\/p>\n

The Camblin decision opened the door for the current litigation regarding the Alcotest 9510.\u00a0 In response to the Camblin decision, defense lawyers filed motion to exclude the breath test arguing that the machines were not scientifically reliable.\u00a0 The district court judge consolidated this litigation before Judge Brennan to resolve all issues regarding the scientific reliability of the Alcotest 9510.\u00a0 That litigation expanded over two years; Judge Brennan concluded that the Alcotest 9510 was scientifically reliable, but found that the Office of Alcohol Testing did not have a scientifically reliable method to annually certify the machines prior to September 14, 2014.\u00a0 As a result he made all tests prior to that date presumptively excluded.<\/p>\n

That ruling resulted in district court judges holding hearings on whether the Commonwealth could prove that the analyst from OAT followed a reliable method.\u00a0 Judges were reaching different decisions on this issue.\u00a0 Recently, the Commonwealth stopped using all breath test results after it was discovered that the OAT failed to turn over 400 documents that were ordered to be produced as part of the litigation. \u00a0The hearing this week will address what remedy is afforded a result of this discovery violation. District Attorneys are investigating what occurred and have not used breath test evidence since this violation was uncovered. \u00a0As a Massachusetts OUI Lawyer<\/a>, I would expect Judge Brennan to order that test results cannot be used at all prior to September 2014 as a remedy for the discovery violation. \u00a0As to cases outside of the period of the consolidated appeal, which would be case after September 14, 2014, these may be impacted but the discovery violation depending on the reason for the violation and whether any particular analyst had a role in the failure to disclose the exculpatory evidence.<\/p>\n

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