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"I love this program!  It allows me to communicate with defense attorneys and prosecutors with numbers and graphics in my hand!  This goes a long way toward getting plea agreements and cases settled without a trial" --

"BAC Tracker software has caused me to change the way in which I report alcohol use in medico-legal reports" -- Dr. Edward Ogden, Victoria, Australia.

"Expert witnesses involved in litigation arising from alcohol consumption will find BAC Tracker to be very useful" -- Michael D. Corbett, Ph.D, Omaha, Nebraska, USA.

"In conjunction with our continuing research, BAC Tracker has provided additional corroboration of our internal methods in the assessment of DUI cases" -- Analytical Research Laboratories, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA.

"BAC Tracker allows me to evaluate potential new cases, better understand my client's case, prepare for trial and when possible, use in trial" -- Patrick Barone, Barone Defense Firm, Birmingham, Michigan, USA.

Patrick T. Barone

Patrick T. Barone is the Author of “Defending Drinking Drivers” (James Publishing) a well-known and highly respected multi-volume national legal treatise, and The DUI Book – A Citizen’s Handbook on Fighting a Drunk Driving Charge.” He is also executive editor of “The DWI Journal: Law & Science” (Whitaker Newsletters, Inc.), a nationally circulated legal periodical dedicated to improving the knowledge and success rate of defense attorneys in drunk driving cases. Mr. Barone has written dozens of articles on trial practice and drunk driving defense tactics for other legal journals and periodicals.

Patrick T. Barone is an adjunct professor at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School where he teaches “Drunk Driving Law and Practice” at their Auburn Hills campus. This is believed to the only dedicated drunk driving course offered at any law school anywhere in the United States. The course combines criminal law, constitutional law, and forensic science into one course, and course topics include the science involved in drunk driving, such as alcohol metabolism, breath and blood testing, field sobriety testing and trial skills.

Patrick T. Barone is on Faculty of the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan Trial Lawyer’s College and authors a monthly column for the Criminal Defense Newsletter, published by the State of Michigan’s State Appellate Defender’s Office.

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.

Patrick T. Barone has been named a Michigan “SuperLawyer” for years 2008-2010, “Best Lawyers in Metro Detroit” for years 2008 and 2009 and has been listed in “America’s Best Lawyers” 2009 and 2010.

Patrick T. Barone has been certified as an instructor and practitioner of the Standardized Field Sobriety Tests in accordance with the standards set forth by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Partly as a result of this training, Mr. Barone has been judicially qualified as a court expert allowing him to give opinion testimony before a jury regarding issues relating to DUI investigations and police officers’ field sobriety testing protocols. He is believed to be the only attorney in Michigan who has been so qualified.

Patrick T. Barone 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 BAC DataMaster.

Patrick T. Barone is a member of the Michigan and Illinois Bar Associations, The Criminal Defense Association of Michigan, The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers and is a Sustaining Member of College for DUI Defense.

Patrick T. 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. He may be contacted at (248) 594-4554 or on the web at www.winbackyourlife.org.