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Breath-test ruling on source code

Here’s an interesting angle that we’ve been following for a while, do criminal defendants have a right to
read the source code of devices used against them?

defense attorneys have argued that if they can’t examine the source code, the computer program that runs the machine, they have no way to tell if the Intoxilyzer is reliable. District judges across Minnesota have handled defense requests for the source code with a patchwork of rulings: Some say a defendant has a right to examine it; others say it isn’t relevant.

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