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Reliability: Flooded Sample Chamber 2
Unfortunately it is very easy for a qualified technician to reverse the inlet and outlet couplings Intoxilyzer to wet-bath simulator.
Stephen Biss
Jan 13, 20234 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...
Stephen Biss
Jan 4, 20233 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...
Stephen Biss
Dec 28, 20222 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...
Stephen Biss
Dec 21, 20227 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...
Stephen Biss
Dec 14, 20221 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...
Stephen Biss
Dec 8, 20226 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...
Stephen Biss
Nov 18, 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...
Stephen Biss
Nov 3, 20223 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...
Stephen Biss
Oct 19, 20227 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...
Stephen Biss
Oct 3, 20222 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...
Stephen Biss
Aug 2, 20229 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...
Stephen Biss
Apr 9, 20223 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...
Stephen Biss
Apr 6, 20186 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,...
Stephen Biss
Apr 4, 20185 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...
Stephen Biss
Feb 13, 20183 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...
Stephen Biss
Feb 12, 20185 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...
Stephen Biss
Feb 10, 20187 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...
Stephen Biss
Jan 22, 20186 min read


Durability Over Time
Purpose: To obtain admissions respecting the inadequacy of ATC / CFS recommendations in requiring "stability of metrological...
Stephen Biss
Jan 18, 201810 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...
Stephen Biss
Jan 17, 20185 min read
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