{"id":372,"date":"2014-11-14T05:36:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2014\/11\/appellate-court-rejects-fourth.html"},"modified":"2014-11-14T05:36:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T05:36:09","slug":"appellate-court-rejects-fourth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/appellate-court-rejects-fourth\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth Amendment challenge to breath test refusal statute rejected by Appellate Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most drivers don&#8217;t realize that every state requires a driver suspected of drunk driving submit to a blood-alcohol test or face mandatory license suspension. This requirement is outlined in &#8220;implied-consent statutes.&#8221; Although the U.S. Supreme Court has partially addressed the constitutionality of these statutes, a recent defendant in Illinois unsuccessfully appealed with the state Appellate Court challenging the constitutionality of such statutes under the Fourth Amendment. <\/p>\n<p><big><strong>The Arrest<\/strong><\/big><\/p>\n<p>The case of the <a href=\"http:\/\/law.justia.com\/cases\/illinois\/court-of-appeals-fourth-appellate-district\/2014\/4-13-0346.html\">People of Illinois v. Gaede<\/a> involved a defendant who was arrested for drunk driving associated with a hit-and-run incident. The defendant was operating a motorcycle when he was stopped by an officer responding to reports of a hit-and-run. After failing field sobriety tests, the defendant was arrested for an OUI and transported to the county jail where he was read his rights and warnings. The defendant then chose to refuse the required chemical breath test, and as a result, his license was immediately suspended. The jury found the defendant guilty of the OUI, and the defendant appealed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/appellate-court-rejects-fourth\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Fourth Amendment challenge to breath test refusal statute rejected by Appellate Court\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most drivers don&#8217;t realize that every state requires a driver suspected of drunk driving submit to a blood-alcohol test or face mandatory license suspension. This requirement is outlined in &#8220;implied-consent statutes.&#8221; Although the U.S. Supreme Court has partially addressed the constitutionality of these statutes, a recent defendant in Illinois unsuccessfully appealed with the state Appellate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breathalyzer-refusal-appeals"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Fourth Amendment challenge to breath test refusal statute rejected by Appellate Court &#8212; Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer Blog &#8212; November 14, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Most drivers don&#039;t realize that every state requires a driver suspected of drunk driving submit to a blood-alcohol test or face mandatory license &#8212; 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