Michael J. Nichols

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Friday, August 12, 2011

DISCOVERING YOUR DEFENSE FROM A MICHIGAN-OWI-DUI-OUIL IN THE STATE'S OWN EVIDENCE OF RETROGRADE EXTRAPOLATION

By Michael Nichols
Categories: Michael J. Nichols

 

     The prosecution in a Michigan DUI-OWI-OUIL case often reaches so far to prove the case against you that the proseucutor will use evidence that is "forensically unreliable."  The government may use testimony in an area known as "retrograde extrapolation." "Retrograde extrapolation is a mathematical formula that uses 5 variables to solve an equation for the 6th variable, often the rate of elimination so that the prosecutor can try to present testimony about what your bodily alcohol content was at 2 hours prior to a breath or blood test," says Michigan DUI-OWI-OUIL expert attorney Mike Nichols.

    Nichols added that if you are charged with a DUI-OWI-OUIL offense, you shoud contact an expert OWI attorney anytime the state tries to use retrograde extrapolation. It is ultimately an assumption. Nichols is teaching other lawyers at a seminar called the "ICLE drunk driving update" in September.  

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Mike Nichols is a national leader in drunk driving defense. He is a member of the Forensic Committee and Michigan delegate to the National College for DUI Defense. He is also a Sustaining Member of the College. Nichols is also a founding member of the Michigan Association of OWI Attorneys; a member of the American Chemical Society; an associate member of he American Academy of Forensic Science, Adjunct Professor of Forensic Evidence in Criminal Law and OWI Law and Practice at Cooley Law School. He is also author of the West OWI Practice book and several chapters in other books on science and the law.

Mike Nichols is recognized by his peers in Michigan as a “SuperLawyer” in DUI/Criminal Defense. Nichols has also been asked to speak at conferences by groups such as the NCDD; Various Bar Associations in other states.