{"id":296,"date":"2011-02-05T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2011\/02\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he.html"},"modified":"2011-02-05T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T13:33:46","slug":"massachusetts-judge-rejects-he","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen<\/u>, denied the defendant’s request for a Daubert-Lanigan<\/u> hearing in a group of Massachusetts drunk driving cases that were consolidated for the Honorable Judge Mark Sullivan out of the Lawrence District Court. The case involved 60 defendants charged with operating under the influence of alcohol where the defendants submitted to a breathalyzer test. <\/p>\n

A Daubert-Lanigan hearing<\/a> is hearing that a Massachusetts criminal attorney can request challenge the scientific reliability of expert testimony. When this hearing occurs, the Commonwealth presents its proposed scientific evidence to a judge prior to trial so that the judge can determine whether the evidence is sufficiently reliable for a jury to hear the evidence. If a judge finds that the evidence is not scientific reliable, it will be excluded from evidence. <\/p>\n

Judge Sullivan ruled that the Daubert<\/u> standard does not apply because the Massachusetts legislature made breathalyzer test results admissible by statute and devised a statutory scheme for the admissibility of breathalyzer test results. Accordingly, the judge ruled that a Daubert hearing is inapplicable because the test results are admissible under Massachusetts OUI law.<\/a> <\/p>\n

Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant’s request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a group of Massachusetts drunk driving cases that were consolidated for the Honorable Judge Mark Sullivan out of the Lawrence District Court. The case involved 60 defendants charged with operating under the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathalyzer-testing"],"yoast_head":"\nBreathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — February 5, 2011<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant's request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a — February 5, 2011\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — February 5, 2011\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant's request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a — February 5, 2011\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Michael DelSignore\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — February 5, 2011","description":"A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant's request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a — February 5, 2011","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — February 5, 2011","twitter_description":"A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant's request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a — February 5, 2011","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Michael DelSignore","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael DelSignore","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f0bc58f94b3abb11fcd52cf8961c0a6e"},"headline":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge","datePublished":"2011-02-05T13:33:46+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/"},"wordCount":605,"articleSection":["Breathalyzer Testing"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/","url":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/","name":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — February 5, 2011","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2011-02-05T13:33:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f0bc58f94b3abb11fcd52cf8961c0a6e"},"description":"A Massachusetts trial judge, Mark Sullivan, in the case of Commonwealth v. Anthony Daen, denied the defendant's request for a Daubert-Lanigan hearing in a — February 5, 2011","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-judge-rejects-he\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Breathalyzer source code hearing in Massachusetts drunk driving cases denied by trial judge"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/","name":"Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Massachusetts Criminal Defense Attorney \u2014 Michael DelSignore","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f0bc58f94b3abb11fcd52cf8961c0a6e","name":"Michael DelSignore","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2c2feb8b4aa63cb661df76a3a12db20d4c03eb82a70a095b3d26cfac38d5dc0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2c2feb8b4aa63cb661df76a3a12db20d4c03eb82a70a095b3d26cfac38d5dc0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/2c2feb8b4aa63cb661df76a3a12db20d4c03eb82a70a095b3d26cfac38d5dc0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Michael DelSignore"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}