[¶ 1] Jeffrey G. Anderson, Kevin S. Bridges, Bruce Melhorn, Suzanna M. Merrier, and Scott R. Ireland appeal from judgments entered on conditional guilty pleas pursuant to M.R.Crim.P. II. 1 The pleas preserved for appeal defendants’ challenge to an order by the District Court (York, Levy, J.) denying motions to suppress the results of breath analysis tests used to charge the defendants with operating under the influence of intoxicants or with an excessive blood alcohol level, in violation of 29-A M.R.S.A. § 2411 (1996 & Supp.1998). 2 The defendants argue that the State’s failure to offer and to preserve a second breath sample violates their right to due process as guaranteed by the Maine Constitution. 3 Finding no viola *1233 tion of the defendants’ due process, we affirm.
[¶ 2] In unrelated incidents, all of the defendants were charged with the offense of operating under the influence. Each defendant submitted to blood-alcohol testing-through the Intoxilyzer 5000 (Intoxilyzer). 4 None of the defendants requested that an independent breath sample be preserved; the police did not offer to preserve a second sample, and the police did not inform the defendants that they could request the preservation of a second sample. The Intoxilyzer machines were not equipped to allow preservation of a second sample, although evidence presented indicated that they could be modified to do so at a cost of $1,000 per machine.
[¶ 3] Anderson, Bridges, and Mercier filed a motion to suppress the results of the Intoxilyzer. The District Court (York, Levy, J.) held a consolidated evidentiary hearing on their motions on July 22, 1997. Ireland and Melhorn also filed motions to suppress the Intoxilyzer results in their eases. On August 27, 1997, the District Court (Biddeford, Janette, J.) granted Ireland’s motion to join and consolidate. On September 25, 1997, the District Court (York, Humphrey, J.) granted Melhorn’s motion to join and consolidate.
[¶ 4] Finding no due process violations, the District Court (York, Levy, J.) denied the motions to suppress on November 19, 1997. Based on the evidence presented at the hearing of July 22,1997, the court found:
[t]he testimony of Dr. Carolyn Howard, Ph.D., an analytical chemist, establishes that the Intoxilyzer 5000 is less accurate than the gas chromatography analysis she performs in her laboratory. The laboratory analysis, unlike the Intoxilyzer 5000, is able to distinguish ethyl alcohol from other volatile compounds such as methanol, toluene and ethers.... Because laboratory gas chromatography is more accurate than the Intoxilyzer 5000, Dr. Howard’s analysis of 235 breath samples resulted in different test results in approximately 80% of the samples tested. However, deviations were of little legal significance because the number of samples which could be deemed as “not corroborative” under evidentiary standards established by the State of New Hampshire, the jurisdiction in which Dr. Howard performs most of her work, was 2.55%.
[¶ 5] The cases then were transferred to Superior Court. On July 17,1998, Anderson, Bridges, Melhorn, and Mercier entered conditional guilty pleas in Superior Court (York County, Brennan, J.). Ireland entered a conditional guilty plea in Superior Court York County, Fritzsche, J.) on August 18, 1998. This appeal followed.
[¶ 6] This Court reviews rulings on motions to suppress for errors of law or clearly erroneous findings of fact.
See State v. Boyington,
[¶ 7] Although this case is one of first impression in Maine, the United States Supreme Court addressed this issue in
California v. Trombetta,
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[¶ 8] The United States Supreme Court concluded that the evidence at issue in
Trom-betta
did not meet either of the above conditions. First, it found that “in all but a tiny fraction of the cases, preserved breath samples would simply confirm the Intoxilyzer’s determination that the defendant had a high level of blood-alcohol concentration at the time of the test.”
Trombetta,
[¶ 9] Due process under the Maine Constitution does not require preservation of a second breath sample. This Court has held repeatedly that due process under the Maine Constitution provides no greater protection to individuals than does due process under the United States Constitution.
See, e.g., Fichter v. Board of Envtl. Protection,
[¶ 10] This Court’s decision in
State v. Berkley,
[¶ 11] In ruling that the soil samples were admissible, the Court explained the defendant could have taken independent soil samples or presented evidence at trial to impeach the State’s test results.
See Berkley,
In [Youngblood ], the United States Supreme Court further narrowed the circumstances under which nonpreservation of evidence will be found unconstitutional. Faced with a due process challenge ... the Court held “that unless a criminal defendant can show bad faith on the part of the police, failure to preserve potentially useful evidence does not constitute a denial of due process of law.” Accordingly, under Trombetta and Youngblood defendant has failed to establish a violation of his right to due process.
Berkley,
[¶ 12] Here, the defendants did not present evidence to show that they satisfy the test that the Berkley Court used. They presented no evidence that the police acted with bad faith and no other rational basis to distinguish Trombetta. Thus, they have failed to establish a violation of their right to due process under the Maine Constitution.
The entry is
Judgment affirmed.
Notes
. M.R.Crim.P. 11 provides in relevant part:
With the approval of the court and the consent of the attorney for the state, a defendant may enter a conditional guilty plea. A conditional guilty plea shall be in writing. It shall specifically state any pretrial motion and the ruling thereon to be preserved for appellate review. If the court approves and the attorney for the state consents to entry of the conditional plea, they shall file a written certification that the record is adequate for appellate review and that the case is not appropriate for application of the harmless error doctrine. Appellate review of any specified ruling shall not be barred by the entry of the plea.
If the defendant prevails on appeal, the defendant shall be allowed to withdraw the plea.
. Section 2411 provides in pertinent part:
1. Offense. A person commits OUI, which is a Class D crime unless otherwise provided, if that person operates a motor vehicle:
A. While under the influence of intoxicants; or
B. While having a blood-alcohol level of 0.08% or more.
29-A M.R.S.A. § 2411 (1996 & Supp.1998).
.Article I, Section 6 provides:
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall have a right to be heard by himself and his counsel, or either, at his election;
To demand the nature and cause of the accusation, and have a copy thereof;
To be confronted by the witnesses against him;
To have compulsory process for obtaining his witnesses in his favor;
To have a speedy, public and impartial trial, and, except in trials by martial law or impeachment, by a jury of the vicinity. He shall not be compelled to furnish or give evidence against himself, nor be deprived of his life, liberty, property or privileges, but by judgment of his peers or the law of the land.
Me. Const, art. I, § 6. Article I, Section 6-A states:
No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law, nor be denied the equal protection of the laws, nor be denied the enjoyment of his civil rights or be discriminated against in the exercise thereof.
Me. Const, art. I, § 6-A.
. The Intoxilyzer 5000 uses breath samples to measure the alcohol concentration in blood.
