DataMaster DMT
On June 3rd, 2011 in Lansing at the Cooley Law School, Chuck Rathburn and Mary McMurray, two of the nation’s top instructors in breath testing and the DMT will present the basics of breath testing and the specifics of Michigan’s new instrument, the DMT.
You may have read the coverage in the Detroit News regarding the DMTs that are on order by the State of Michigan awaiting the word to be called into service. Here is a brief part of that article, written by Laura Berman:
The Michigan State Police has coughed up $1.4 million for 228 state-of-the-art alcohol breath analyzers since 2008.
So where are they? Three years after a Mansfield, Ohio, company began taking Michigan’s money for a spiffy new fleet of Datamaster DMTs, only 40 machines have been built — and even they haven’t been deployed.
The story of the Datamaster DMTs is a bureaucratic classic: Why will it take almost four years to roll out the $6,500 machines that take minutes to install and practically operate themselves?
Read the entire article.
On June 3, 2011, the legal seminar “Understanding the Mystery of Breath Testing” will be presented in Lansing Michigan. In one day Michigan lawyers will learn about how alcohol works in the body from DUI Guru Patrick Barone; how breath testing works and specifically the new DMT from Chuck Rathburn and Mary McMurray and … how to communicate all this to the jury from Lansing DUI lawyer Mike Nichols. Download the brochure: Michigan 060311 brochure final.
This 9.5 hour seminar will cover calibration and simulation of the DataMaster DMT, Henry’s Law, Lambert-Beer law, and the basic science of infrared breath testing.
Mr. Rathburn and Ms. McMurray are instructors in breath testing and the datamaster dmt approved by the manufacturer of the instrument, National Patent Analytical Systems (NPAS). This is a can’t miss presentation.
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Patrick T. Barone is the author on two books on DUI defense including the well respected two volume treatise Defending Drinking Drivers (James Publishing), and The DUI Book – A Citizen’s Guide to Understanding DUI Litigation in America. He is also the author of a monthly DUI defense column for the Criminal Defense Newsletter, published by Michigan’s State Appellate Defender’s Office. Mr. Barone is an adjunct professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he teaches Drunk Driving Law and Practice. He is also on the faculty of the Criminal Defense Attorney’s of Michigan’s Trial Lawyer’s College where he provides trial skills training to Michigan’s criminal defense practitioners. Mr. Barone lectures nationally on various DUI defense topics, and he has appeared in newspapers, on television and on radio as a drunk driving defense expert. Mr. Barone has been certified as an instructor and practitioner of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and has also attended a 24-hour certification course at National Patent Analytical Corporation (the manufacturer of the DataMaster) and has thereby been deemed competent by the manufacturer to operate, perform essential diagnostic verifications and calibration checks on the DataMaster. Mr. Barone is a Sustaining Member of College for DUI Defense. Mr. Barone is the principal and founding member of The Barone Defense Firm, whose practice is limited exclusively to defending drinking drivers. The Firm is headquartered in Birmingham, Michigan.