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Posted: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 3:16PM
Lawyer: Breathalyzers Are Racist
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- A lawyer representing a man charged with drunken driving claims Connecticut's breathalyzers discriminate against blacks.
Attorney James O. Ruane represents 40-year-old Tyrone Brown of Norwalk, who was arrested April 9 by state police on Interstate 95 in Fairfield.
In a motion filed Tuesday in Bridgeport Superior Court, Ruane asked a judge to suppress his client's breathalyzer test results.
He contends the device used by state police and most local police departments, the Intoxilyzer 5000, discriminates against blacks.
The Connecticut Post spoke with Ruane and has his comments, "They are KKK in a box," said lawyer James O. Ruane of Shelton. "We really have some racist machines here."
Ruane says research shows that the lung capacity of a black man is 3 percent smaller than a white man and, therefore, black men's test results vary from the sobriety standard set by the device.
Assistant State's Attorney Mark Durso declined comment.
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