Monthly Archives: April 2011

FDLE Hides “Numerical Results” of the DUI Breath Test Readings

The state of Florida buys a bunch of black boxes. The black boxes are sent to various law enforcement agencies throughout the state. After an arrest is made, the subject is asked to touch the black box. The black box then spits out a piece of paper that says whether the person arrested is “guilty” […]

Volume Not Met (VNM) Flag on Florida’s Intoxilyzer 8000

Recently I’ve seen an unusually high number of cases in which someone blows into the Intoxilyzer 8000 after a DUI arrest here in Tampa, Hillsborough County, FL, with a “VNM” flag. In many of these cases, the person arrested for DUI will report that they tried to blow into the machine as hard as they […]