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Maybe the Instrument Is No Longer Linear Enough to Be An "8000C"
Purpose: To explore the analytical variability of the 8000C as determined by the Alcohol Test Committee during evaluation of the 8000C...
Stephen Biss
May 22, 20185 min read
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BAC Analysis in a Lab Without Bracketing Controls is at Best Qualitative not Quantitative
We have a serious problems in the Canadian criminal justice system. One of them is the failure of Parliament and the Courts to recognize...
Stephen Biss
Apr 27, 20184 min read
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Change at One Point but Not at Another Point that is Equivalent
This is a sample excerpt from a cross-examination of a Crown expert using data from periodic inspection of an approved instrument. The...
Stephen Biss
Apr 13, 20185 min read
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Police Fail to Correct a Linearity Problem on In-House Annual Inspection
Let's suppose that you obtain disclosure or Freedom of Information documents respecting In-house Periodic Inspections by your local...
Stephen Biss
Mar 29, 20186 min read
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Why Does the ATC Say Single Point Control Tests are Good Enough?
Purpose: To explore the differences between a measurement instrument that has a linear relationship between the thing measured and the...
Stephen Biss
Mar 25, 20186 min read
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Response Drifts Over Time
In an article relied upon by the SCC in St. Onge, Brian Hodgson stated: Defence lawyers need to educate themselves about the meanings of...
Stephen Biss
Mar 23, 20183 min read
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What is measurement?
Purpose: Cross-examination of a CFS scientist on the VIM. To connect "measurement" in Canadian evidentiary breath testing to...
Stephen Biss
Feb 15, 20186 min read
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Control Tests do not displace Formal Calibration Intervals
Purpose: To separate conceptually control tests from calibration To obtain an admission that there are no "assessors" in the province of...
Stephen Biss
Jan 13, 20187 min read
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Linearity Studies are Done on New Instruments not Aging Instruments
Purpose: To obtain admissions that the published studies dealing with the linearity of approved instruments assume a new instrument...
Stephen Biss
Jan 12, 20182 min read
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Instrumental Deviations from Beer-Lambert Law
This blog entry explores the use of a university textbook during cross-examination of a CFS scientist on "Instrumental Deviations from...
Stephen Biss
Jan 11, 201810 min read
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Beer-Lambert Law as Stated in Training Aid is Over-Simplified and Inadequate
This blog entry contains excerpts from the cross-examination of a CFS scientist during an over 80 trial. It was suggested to the...
Stephen Biss
Jan 10, 201811 min read
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