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Article: Blood test for driver in crash is upheld
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- August 18, 2000
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Blood test for driver in crash is upheld
Associated Press
Friday, August 18, 2000
Madison -- Requiring a man to take a blood test after being
arrested on suspicion of drunken driving did not violate his
constitutional rights, a state appeals court panel ruled Thursday.
The ruling by the 4th District Court of Appeals panel was the
second in as many weeks upholding Wisconsin's implied consent law.
The law requires drivers stopped on suspicion of drunken driving
to submit to a blood or breath test or lose their driver's licenses.
The state had appealed a ruling of Richland County Circuit Judge
Edward Leineweber, who suppressed John Thorstad's blood test as
evidence.
Thorstad had claimed that ...