Search Warrants In Arizona DUI Cases: They will forcibly take your blood (DUI)
Search Warrants In Arizona DUI Cases: They will forcibly take your blood
Arizona has long been ahead of other states in its willingness to allow officers to extract blood against an arrestee's will if the person refuses to submit to a breath or blood test when the officer asks. (…)
Arizona has long been ahead of other states in its willingness to allow officers to extract blood against an arrestee's will if the person refuses to submit to a breath or blood test when the officer asks.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Organization (NHTSA), which publishes extensively on the subject of DUI, put out a study of search warrants in DUI cases. Arizona was one of the main states studied.
The article is an interesting read and worthwhile to anybody who tries to understand the answer to the question of “it's only a misdemeanor DUI, how can they get a warrant and tie me down and take my blood?”
DUI search warrants are speading throughout the country. Arizona, as usual, is on the forefront of police tactics that seem invasive and over the top (see officer blood draws for another example). However, in time, what Arizona does the rest of the nation, at least in DUI law, seems to eventually accept.
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California Prosecutor Gets Drunk Driving Charge
It never ceases to amaze me when anybody gets two DUIs during the same drinking episode. Add to it the fact that this was a prosecutor, and you have quite a story. (…)
It never ceases to amaze me when anybody gets two DUIs during the same drinking episode. Add to it the fact that this was a prosecutor, and you have quite a story. Not much to say here that isn't obvious or already said.
Quoted from http://www.lvrj.com/news/20595859.html:
ReviewJournal.com - News - Nye County district attorney cited for DUI after two wrecks
Nye County District Attorney Robert Beckett is facing a drunken driving charge in California — and what figure to be some uncomfortable questions from his constituents — after crashing two vehicles on the same desert highway six hours apart.
Beckett, 49, totaled his county-issued sport utility vehicle in the first rollover accident, which occurred about 1:30 p.m. Sunday on California Route 127 just south of Shoshone, Calif.
Then, after catching a ride back to his home in Pahrump in a tow truck, Beckett headed back out on the same highway in the family van, only to crash again at 7:35 p.m. about 35 miles south of the first accident scene.
The California Highway Patrol officer called to the scene of the second wreck reported smelling alcohol on Beckett's breath.
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