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If you received a DUI in Colorado Springs this year, there’s a chance that your righteous indignation was actually warranted.
Recent quality control checks by the Colorado Springs Police Department crime lab found that 82 blood samples taken since January were found to have lower BAC (blood alcohol content) than initial tests showed. As a result, over 1,000 samples are being retested.
It is unknown how much impact the inaccurate tests have had on criminal convictions this year. According to the Gazette, prosecutors are contacting lawyers for the defendants affected by the incorrect test results. The Revenue Department has already restored the driving privileges of at least three individuals who had been convicted of drunken driving as a result of the faulty results.
Several Colorado authorities including the Bureau of Investigations and the Police Internal Affairs department are investigating the situation to determine what went wrong.
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