{"id":470,"date":"2018-11-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baronedefensefirm.lawblogger.net\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/"},"modified":"2025-01-08T14:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T18:39:46","slug":"dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/","title":{"rendered":"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test Remains Clear as Mud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past decade, the United States Supreme Court has issued several opinions addressing a DUI defendant\u2019s right to confront a breath or blood test used by the prosecution to prove intoxication at trial. In legal terms, the word \u201cconfront\u201d essentially means cross-examine. An example of this confrontation right in the context of a drunk driving case would be the right to cross-examine the police officer who administered a breath test, or the forensic analyst who prepared a blood sample for testing.\u00a0 This issue came before the USSC again in 2018.\u00a0 The name of the case is Stuart v. Alabama.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the USSC declined the opportunity to clarify this issue, and by order dated November 19, 2018, denied the defendant\u2019s petition for review (certiorari).<\/p>\n<p>However, there was a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/18pdf\/17-1676_bqmc.pdf\">dissenting opinion<\/a> written by Justice Gorsuch and joined by Justice Sotomayor.\u00a0 This opinion contains some interesting information.\u00a0 Perhaps picking up the cross-examination baton laid down by Justice Scalia, Justice Gorsuch refers to cross-examination as \u201cthe greatest legal engine ever invented for the discovery of truth.\u201d\u00a0 Furthermore, that:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Cross-examination is an essential guard against such mischief and mistake and the risk of false convictions.\u00a0 Even the most well-meaning analyst may lack essential training, contaminate a sample, or err during the testing process.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test Remains Clear as Mud\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past decade, the United States Supreme Court has issued several opinions addressing a DUI defendant\u2019s right to confront a breath or blood test used by the prosecution to prove intoxication at trial. In legal terms, the word \u201cconfront\u201d essentially means cross-examine. An example of this confrontation right in the context of a drunk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui-defense","category-dui-trials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A DUI defendant&#039;s constitutional right to confront chemical test is unclear. Our Michigan OWI lawyers can explain how you can defend your rights.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A DUI defendant&#039;s constitutional right to confront chemical test is unclear. Our Michigan OWI lawyers can explain how you can defend your rights.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Patrick Barone\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test","description":"A DUI defendant&#039;s constitutional right to confront chemical test is unclear. Our Michigan OWI lawyers can explain how you can defend your rights.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test","twitter_description":"A DUI defendant&#039;s constitutional right to confront chemical test is unclear. Our Michigan OWI lawyers can explain how you can defend your rights.","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Patrick Barone","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/","name":"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website"},"datePublished":"2018-11-30T04:00:00+00:00","dateModified":"2025-01-08T18:39:46+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f"},"description":"A DUI defendant&#039;s constitutional right to confront chemical test is unclear. Our Michigan OWI lawyers can explain how you can defend your rights.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/dui-defendants-constitutional-right-to-confront-chemical-test-remains-clear-as-mud\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DUI Defendant\u2019s Constitutional Right to Confront Chemical Test Remains Clear as Mud"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/","name":"Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog","description":"Published by Michigan Criminal Defense Attorney \u2014 Barone Defense Firm","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/da00f897e195cfccca02fe556b53136f","name":"Patrick Barone","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/72accf40078879330cdb7caae27be7ad00db64cb0555444fefa6e1a762116037?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Patrick Barone"}}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3687,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}