Pennsylvania DUI attorney Justin J. McShane, Esq. presents his lecture "Defending DUI Drug Cases" in Hartford, CT in December 2009. In Part 2: "Drug Identification and Quantification," expert DUI Attorney McShane details the difference between impaired and metabolite states, and explains why "the numbers by themselves are meaningless or junk." The McShane Firm is the…
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A wakeup call: Independence in Crime Labs is not enough
While independence is necessary for any laboratory to insure against bias, it is just a start. Without meaningful double blind unannounced proficiency-based testing of every technician conducted by yet and another independent certified set of laboratory auditors, then it means nothing. We also need the technicians to be true credentialed scientists having graduated from brick…
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Defending DUI Drug Cases: Part 1 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 this introduction, expert DUI Attorney McShane presents an overview of how DUI lawyers can use forensic science to successfully defend clients accused of DUI-D cases. The McShane Firm is the premier DUI/DWI law firm…
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What’s more important Sports or Courts?
Olympic doping lab world’s most sophisticated A dope-testing lab considered the most sophisticated in the world is up and running for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. I read this article the other day and it got me thinking: What’s more important making sure a cheater doesn’t win a race or making sure an innocent…
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Juries want forensic science in DUI cases: Interview by Lisa Bloom with Justin McShane
Catch this interview with national TV legal analyst Lisa Bloom and Justin McShane, a Harrisburg DUI Lawyer. They discus the way that juries look at forensic science and crave it. -Justin J. McShane, Esquire, Pennsylvania DUI Attorney I am the highest rated DUI Attorney in PA as Rated by Avvo.com You can follow me…
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Why forensic science testing for DUI BAC determination is the silly sister of analytical science: Good Laboratory Practices
I have written before, perhaps rhetorically: Why if someone is allowed full due process of law are we also not entitled to due process of science? It seems backward. Law at the expense of science or science at the expense of law, doesn’t it? One would think rationally that we would be entitled to full…
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You have heard of the NAS (National Academy of Sciences) study, but have you heard of STARD?
Congress recently commissioned the National Academies to make a searching examination of the state of forensic science in the Courtroom in America. This systemic and detailed examination resulted in a report entitled “Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward”. The forensic science community was all ablaze as a result of the condemning…
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WellSpan is to be commended, but why people who have been convicted for decades of a DUI should be upset
On Wednesday and Thursday of this past week, Rick Fulton of the Gettysburg Times, wrote reported that WellSpan hospital system in Central Pennsylvania will no longer support or offer to provide blood testing for Court use of Blood Alcohol Content testing (BAC). The BAC testing, of course, is so important in a DUI prosecution and…
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Piece of Paper Reads: “You’re Guilty”. Well Not Any More.
Imagine a place where you are accused of a crime. Where you can lose your liberty. Where you can lose your job. Where you can lose everything you have worked so very hard for. Imagine that during this trial, the Government only introduced a single piece of paper that reads “You’re Guilty”. That’s it. Imagine…
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