Minnesota BCA: Errors in DWI testing equipment may impact 270+ cases

Data entry errors in DWI testing equipment may impact at least 277 cases and have prompted the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to order a statewide inspection of the instruments.

According to the BCA, “trained operators” discovered the errors while installing gas cylinders in DataMaster instruments, which are breath testing machines.

“Each DMT instrument holds a uniquely numbered dry gas cylinder with a known alcohol concentration, which serves as a control during every test to ensure the instrument is measuring alcohol accurately,” the BCA said in a news release on Friday…

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