{"id":340,"date":"2014-06-05T11:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2014\/06\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru.html"},"modified":"2014-06-05T11:57:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T11:57:18","slug":"breathalyzer-test-results-stru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/","title":{"rendered":"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican<\/u><\/a>, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge’s denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that the test results were invalid under state regulations. The Appeals Court’s decision is a significant victory for Massachusetts OUI defense attorneys<\/a> as the Court placed a greater burden on the Commonwealth requiring prosecutors to offer more reliable evidence to establish a defendant’s BAC level to reach a conviction.<\/p>\n

The defendant in Hourican<\/u> was operating a pickup truck late at night when he collided with a Boston police patrol wagon. A Boston police officer observed signs of intoxication and arrested the defendant after the defendant failed multiple field sobriety tests. The defendant later consented to two breathalyzer tests, the first read a BAC level of .121 percent, and the second read .143 percent. The breathalyzer device used was the “Alcotest 9510”.<\/p>\n

Although both results were above the statutory limit of .08 percent, the results were problematic in that they differed by .022 percent. Massachusetts state regulations provide that a breath test sequence (two consecutive tests with a time lapse of a few minuets in between) is only valid if the results are within +\/- .02 percent of one another.<\/p>\n

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

In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge’s denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that the test results were invalid under state regulations. The Appeals Court’s decision is a significant victory for Massachusetts OUI defense attorneys as the Court placed a greater burden on the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBreathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — June 5, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge's denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that — June 5, 2014\" \/>\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\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — June 5, 2014\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge's denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that — June 5, 2014\" \/>\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 test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — June 5, 2014","description":"In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge's denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that — June 5, 2014","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\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — June 5, 2014","twitter_description":"In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge's denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that — June 5, 2014","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\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/"},"author":{"name":"Michael DelSignore","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f0bc58f94b3abb11fcd52cf8961c0a6e"},"headline":"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable","datePublished":"2014-06-05T11:57:18+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/"},"wordCount":706,"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/","url":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/","name":"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable — Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog — June 5, 2014","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2014-06-05T11:57:18+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/f0bc58f94b3abb11fcd52cf8961c0a6e"},"description":"In the recent matter of Commonwealth v. Hourican, the Appeals Court reversed a trial judge's denial of a motion to suppress breathalyzer test, ruling that — June 5, 2014","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/breathalyzer-test-results-stru\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Breathalyzer test results struck down by Massachusetts Appeals Court as unreliable"}]},{"@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\/340","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=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}