What you need to know to operate the Intoxilyzer 5000 in Georgia
“Push the green button.”
I am not joking…that’s all it takes. Police officers love to get on the stand and tell you about all of their great training on how to operate the Intoxilyzer 5000 and how they are certified by the GBI to run it. When he tell you how he set up the machine properly, ran a diagnostic check and tested the ambient air conditions to make sure nothing was going to interfere with the test…consider this.
“Officer, you could train a monkey to give this test couldn’t you?”
He is likely to respond that a monkey couldn’t set up the machine. What he is referring to is typing in your client’s name, arrest date, license number etc.. If you can hunt and peck on a typewriter, you can run this machine.
Try to explore what the officer know about breath testing and the “science” behind it. The officers are trained to say that they are not familar with the inner workings of the machine. Somebody told them that the machine worked, that is it. Very few actually understand the principles in play with breath testing, they are just drinking the Kool Aid.
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