Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture “Defending DUI Drug Cases” in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 8: “Dealing with DRE Officers,” DUI Attorney McShane explains various tactics for dealing with so-called Drug Recognition Expert (DRE) officers in DUI-D cases. The McShane Firm is the premier DUI/DWI law firm in…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 7 from PA DUI attorney Justin J. McShane
Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture “Defending DUI Drug Cases” in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 7: “Educating The Jury,” expert DUI Attorney McShane explains how to beat a state drug expert by demonstrating to jurors the difference between a valid and conclusve result and a real-world false conclusion…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 6 from PA DUI attorney Justin J. McShane
Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture "Defending DUI Drug Cases" in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 6: "Solid Dose Drug Testing," expert DUI Attorney McShane focuses on solid does drug testing, and explains why gas chromatography is the most accurate drug identification system, but oly if preformed properly. The…
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Carryover effect part 3: Flushing of inert gas is not enough to prove there is no carryover
We have all heard of the "three second rule". Namely that if someone drops food on the floor that it is good and safe to eat if you are above to snatch it back up within three seconds. Sometimes we blow on it even to "get off the bacteria, germs and other stuff from the…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 5 from PA DUI attorney Justin J. McShane
Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture “Defending DUI Drug Cases” in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 5: “Drug Testing Overview,” expert DUI Attorney McShane presents an overview the different types of DUI-D testing systems and the shortcomings of each. The McShane Firm is the premier DUI/DWI law firm in…
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Carryover effect part Deux: Autodilution may be part of the problem for false blood results in DUI
Just recently I posted "The Carry-over Effect: Lack of Blanks between tests leads to false positive or inflated BAC results" where we discussed the carry-over effect in Blood testing in DUI cases. One of the possible places for carry-over effect is when an auto-pipetter is used in an autodiluter. Pennsylvania has some labs that in their…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 4 from PA DUI attorney Justin J. McShane
Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture "Defending DUI Drug Cases" in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 4: "Dosage and Drug Response," expert DUI Attorney McShane explains the important roles of both the drug response curve and chronic dose sample error in successfully defending DUI-D cases. The McShane Firm is…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 3 from PA DUI attorney Justin J. McShane
Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture "Defending DUI Drug Cases" in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 3: "Pharmacology," expert DUI Attorney McShane explains the differences, both in testing procedure and impairment determination, between DUI Alcohol and DUI Drug cases. The McShane Firm is the premier DUI/DWI law firm in…
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If he was an analytical chemist or a DUI defense attorney he would say “Show me the separation!!”
Who can forget Cuba Gooding Junior in the movie Jerry McGuire shouting “SHOW ME THE MONEY!”??? If he was an analytical chemist or a DUI defense attorney facing a purported result from a Headspace Gas Chromatograph with a Flame Ionization Detector, he would yell: “SHOW ME THE SEPARATION!!!!!!” Well, that is one of the things that a…
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The Carryover Effect: Lack of Blanks between tests leads to false positive or inflated BAC results
Imagine. You go into your doctor’s office for a routine physical. As part of that routine physical, the doctor takes your blood. You come back two weeks later where the doctor delivers the single worst sentence you have ever heard in your life: “I’m sorry but you have cancer.” Then comes ever worse news from…
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