Minnesota Court: Release Source Code of Breath-Testing Machines

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Drunken-driving convicts in Minnesota are intoxicated over a recent state high court ruling allowing defense experts to examine the source code of breath-testing machines. The legal brouhaha concerns the court’s position (.pdf) that drunk drivers have the right to examine the evidence against them. But the company that supplies the state with breath-testing machines, CMI of Kentucky , isn’t forking over the code and is declaring it a trade secret — threatening thousands of DUI convictions.