Not disagreeing, my wife has testified in a few of these that actually have gone to trial. Usually a big mistake on the lawyers part. I just wanted to correct the assumption that these were state employees or police technicians. The same machines that are used to analyze blood for hospital patients is used for the DUI’s. Only the chain of custody is more stringent. Mostly it’s a giant PITA for everyone.
Right, I don’t think we are disagreeing. I am not necessarily saying there’s any bias or screwups either, I am just for the ability of the defendant to see their accusers or expert witnesses against them, in court. Especially so if they are state workers or government workers or contracted by the state.
There’s always a chance a lab is being run poorly or there is some hack coroner running a shoddy ship. In many places a coroner doesn’t have to be a doctor and only gets the job because they win an election. Stuff like that. Or finding a private lab contracted to do work is doing crap work to cut costs or has a bunch of people not qualified to do work, doing their work.