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Drunken driving cases disputed (Attorneys promise challenges after lab manager’s resignation)
Written by Adam Wilson
Full Article Published in The Olympian

Evidence in drunken driving cases across the state are likely to be challenged because of questions about the state’s toxicology lab manager’s role in checking breath analyzers, defense attorneys say.

The Washington State Patrol and prosecutors say the former manager’s failure to personally check batches of a solution used in breath analyzers has no effect on the machines’ accuracy, because ...

I know it isn’t Washington legal news but it makes for a great read:

Posted Sep 17, 2007, 01:50 pm CDT in the ABA Journal (Law News Now)
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The Philippines Supreme Court has asked a fired judge who claims he is assisted by three elves to stop making threats of “ungodly reprisal.”

The court kicked Florentino Floro Jr. off the bench largely because of his belief in the supernatural, the Wall Street Journal reports. A medical clinic determined that ...