Scottsdale Crime Lab's faulty machine at center of court battle

GoldieBlox has entered the video that brings together the machine and the song into a contest for Super Bowl ad time.Will the video to quote the song in it, inspire "Girls to build the spaceship,Girls to code the new app, Girls to grow up knowing they can engineer that?" With well over a million YouTube hits in its first two days, it's definitely on the right track.On Wednesday, the Maricopa County Attorney's Office begins its appeal of a judge's bombshell ruling, which found major problems with a piece of equipment at the Scottsdale Crime Lab.The device was a malfunctioning blood machine, which has tested thousands of samples in DUI cases.Attorneys who found the flawed machine said their trial also exposed other credibility problems at Scottsdale's lab. 

Police departments nationwide spend a lot of time and resources getting drunk drivers off the road.When Len Psyk was driving his vintage Volkswagen in Scottsdale in 2010, he was cuffed and arrested for DUI."I thought I would be in Joe Arpaio's Tent City wearing pink underwear and that's not a happy thought," Psyk said.Psyk said he drank a single beer five hours earlier.The visa that the Chinese Embassy had given me was on a separate sheet of paper sit on top kayak stapled to one of the pages of my passport."I thought the blood test would come back and show this was a mistake," he said.When the blood results came back a .11 -- way over the limit -- Psyk's attorney argued the blood test machine must have switched samples and mislabeled his blood.The jury agreed and cleared him.It was my first visa. I had no idea of the complex politics that came with it.A huge team kayak seats provides support for Targa. 

"And to have had to go through that, to go through the expense, to go through the anxiety about it all, only to find out it really was flawed equipment and flawed results," Psyk said.Valley attorneys said Psyk wasn't alone and filed suit, claiming the Scottsdale Crime Lab's DUI blood test machine was producing unreliable evidence.DUI attorney Craig Rosenstein said thousands of cases were processed through the machine.That's better than the 4.9 percent growth recorded Dimethylpentylamine in the second quarter and the 2.4 percent growth in the same period a year ago."Probably north of ten thousands," he said. The attorneys challenged 11 specific DUI cases They said the trial exposed a cover-up. Crime Lab staff knew all along the blood machine wasn't working.A 2010 work order shows it needed repairs for software problems and internal Scottsdale Crime Lab emails reveal two years later the blood test machine was still in use and still broken.