Despite plenty of compelling arguments for making first-time drunken driving offenses a crime, Wisconsin won’t be moving in that direction anytime soon, predicts defense attorney Andrew Mishlove.

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A judge’s decision to allow a doctor to testify to the intoxication of a drunken-driving defendant can be considered a “harmless error,” the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday, because it was not the evidence that led the jury to find him guilty.

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The Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene has issued an official response to my Feb. 11 article on the jagged hump anomaly and cause for concern with the state’s blood alcohol testing.

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In response to attorney Andrew Mishlove’s Feb. 11 commentary “Cause for concern with state’s blood alcohol tests,” the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene drafted a letter, dated Feb. 13, defending its procedures and quality controls.

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My colleagues and I have discovered a series of abnormal blood alcohol tests done at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene, which casts serious doubt about the reliability of blood alcohol tests in Wisconsin.

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