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This is a database of lists of cases connected to particular criminal law issues. You can read the full text for most of the cases listed by visiting https://www.canlii.org/. If you are a law student, student-at-law, or a lawyer and you have additional cases that should be added to this list, please contact us at the email address at the bottom of this page. This portion of the database contains notes (some of which are quite old) made by the author and various students.

R. v. Colbourne

[1999] O.J. No. 4729

Facts

ON CJ

evidence of Dr. Cooper established that there was a high degree of unreliability with respect to the screening device: Dr. Cooper testified initial result of .101 on March 6, '98, showed that an alcohol standard of .100 produced an initial result of .101, and thus the person calibrating the screening device would break the seal and turn a screw so that the final result would be .100. He testified that a screening device should only fluctuate on the initial reading from .09 to .11. He testified that the initial result of .084 on March 23, '98, should have raised immediate suspicion that the screening device required further maintenance and not a calibration check. He further testified that the .084 result cast a serious shadow on the reliability of the machine

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