Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 2
My 66 series 5000 with the flooded sample chamber is still drying out. Initially I would receive a "Processor Error" flag on startup...
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Stephen Biss
Jan 4, 20233 min read
Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 1
It is very easy for a qualified technician to accidentally flood the sample chamber on an Intoxilyzer 5000 (or 5000C) or an 8000 (or...
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Stephen Biss
Dec 28, 20222 min read
Reliability: Aging - Losing Memory
The Intoxilyzer® 8000 depicted in this video was once a reliable evidentiary breath testing instrument in the United States. It is...
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Stephen Biss
Dec 21, 20226 min read
Continuity of Alcohol Standard Solution: Keep from Freezing
Many years ago I asked for timely disclosure/production of a representative bottle of the alcohol standard lot used during the breath...
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Stephen Biss
Dec 14, 20221 min read
What is SCC: R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux "Reliability" in an Approved Intrument?
Please carefully re-read what the Supreme Court of Canada said about "reliability" in R. v. St-Onge Lamoureux. Please think about and...
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Stephen Biss
Dec 8, 20226 min read
What is Differential Voltage Monitoring (DVM) ?
Many years ago Ontario defence lawyers cross-examined breath techs on "how much room there was" on the particular Intoxilyzer 5000C to...
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Stephen Biss
Nov 17, 20223 min read
Study the Block Diagram in the Wet-Bath Simulator Manufacturer's Manual
Tip 25: Obtain a copy of the Guth Laboratories, Inc. wet-bath "Model 2100 Simulator Operation Manual" and study the "Model 2100-Block...
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Stephen Biss
Nov 3, 20223 min read
Continuity of Alcohol Standard: CalGuard Feature
Tip 40: Some police services take the position that they don't need to use seals between the simulator housing and the jar. Failure to...
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Stephen Biss
Oct 19, 20227 min read
Error in Facts - "Impaired Driving and Other Criminal Code Driving Offences", Jokinen and Keen
Does partial automation of error-checking in an approved instrument: specifically diagnostics tests, air blanks, cal. checks, and maximum...
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Stephen Biss
Oct 3, 20222 min read
Continuity: Use of a Seal
Tip 38: One of the best ways to control wet-bath simulator alcohol standard continuity is to use alphanumeric police seals and record...
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Stephen Biss
Aug 2, 20229 min read
Reliability of Approved Instruments in Field Over Time is a Hypothesis: Where is Empirical Study?
Purposes: To obtain the following admissions from the Crown's expert: Calibration of an approved instrument out in the field does not...
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Stephen Biss
Apr 9, 20223 min read
Reliability - Calibration is a Curve
Tip 50: When an "approved instrument" is calibrated at the factory, the manufacturer doesn't simply adjust the electronics in the...
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Stephen Biss
Apr 6, 20186 min read
Start By Defining "Reliability" don't focus on "Accuracy"
Purpose: To remind the Court, "thing 1" in 258(1)(c) is unconstitutional under Charter 11(d) (R v St-Onge) but is saved by section 1. To...
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Stephen Biss
Apr 4, 20185 min read
3 Consecutive Annual Inspections Reveal a Trend Towards Unreliability
Let's suppose that you obtain, as the result of disclosure or a Freedom of Information application of paper or electronic documents,...
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Stephen Biss
Feb 13, 20183 min read
Factors Influencing Reliability
What is "reliability" in the context of a "quantitative analysis"? What does "reliability" mean in measurement science? We have a...
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Stephen Biss
Feb 12, 20185 min read
Stop, Document, and Report
Purpose: To educate the Court about good laboratory practice. To obtain an admission from the CFS scientist, that good laboratory...
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Stephen Biss
Feb 10, 20187 min read
Causation of Error v. Calculation of Drift in Precision - Evidence Based Assessment of Reliability
What is the purpose in Stinchcombe/McNeil disclosure or O'Connor production of maintenance records and historical data? Crown CFS...
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Stephen Biss
Jan 22, 20186 min read
Distorted Concept of "Accuracy", "Precision", and "Reliability"
Purpose: To remind the Court of the concept of "reliability" used by the SCC in St-Onge. To educate the Court as to the definitions of...
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Stephen Biss
Jan 18, 201810 min read
Durability Over Time
Purpose: To obtain admissions respecting the inadequacy of ATC / CFS recommendations in requiring "stability of metrological...
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Stephen Biss
Jan 17, 20185 min read
Each Test Stands on Its Own
Sample cross-examination on the ATC and CFS Position Paper policy that every test stands on its own - that "reliability" has nothing to...
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