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| MIAMI-DADE COUNTY STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICE
DUI DOCUMENT DISCOVERY PROCEDURES
Pursuant to Rule 3.220(a) (1) of the Florida Rules of the Criminal Procedure, you may inspect and/or obtain all documents the State may introduce at hearing or trial and/or supplemental exculpatory evidence and impeachment materials on a walk-in basis on Thursdays and Fridays from 8:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. at the State Attorney's Office, County Court Division, 1469 Northwest 13th Terrace, Miami, FL 33125. Maintenance Documents, Miami-Dade County Secondary Inspection Sheets, Breath Logs for Miami-Dade County Intoxilyzers 5000 instruments, Repair Orders for the Intoxilyzers, Intoxilyzer Registration Certificates, and Certificates of Assurance: are available online at no charge through the Miami-Dade State Attorney's website at www.MiamiSAO.com under "DUI Discovery Documents." Other ResourcesThe Florida Department of Law Enforcement keeps public electronic records of all Intoxilyzer 8000 documents at www.fdle.state.fl.us/atp under "Public Records" and "ARS". Since those records are uploaded electronically, FDLE's website may contain very recent records not immediately available on the State Attorney's Office website. Breath Test Permits, HGN Logs, Uniform Guidelines for Checkpoints, DRE Logs, and DUI Room Key Logs may be available via a public records request of the police agencies, or via subpoena. Litigation Packets To obtain documents from the forensic toxicology lab in blood and urine cases, you must fax or mail the request to the attention of H. Chip Walls at the University of Miami Forensic Toxicology Lab, 12500 Southwest 152nd Street, Building B, Miami, Florida, 33177 (305) 232-7020, fax (305) 232-7461. You must pay a reasonable cost for the photocopying before the documents are produced. When the lab receives payment, the lab will forward the documents within ten (10) days. If the laboratory fails to do so, you should file a Motion for an Order to Show Cause with the court. You may request the confirmatory test, calibrations done on the instruments the day of the confirmatory test; chain of custody documents; property receipt; instrument maintenance and repair records.
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