Implied Consent
An Arizona DUI Implied Consent License Suspension is a 1- or 2-year suspension which the Arizona MVD may impose against a person’s Arizona driver’s license or privilege to drive even though they have not been, and may never be, convicted in court of a DUI charge. The suspension is as a result of a…
4/28/16 On April 26, 2016, the Arizona Supreme Court issued two decisions involving persons arrested under Arizona DUI Implied Consent laws. See my blog about the Valenzuela case for the arguments. In a similar case, State v. Brown, involving the same issues but for the Implied Consent Law for Boating Under the Influence (OUI), the…
4/27/16 Arizona Implied Consent Law says that a person arrested on suspicion of DUI charges must submit to whatever chemical tests (breath, blood or urine) that the police say they must submit to. The admonition officers read to the arrested person also provides that if the person does not submit to the designated tests their…
2/5/16 Court of Appeals says Arizona’s DUI Implied Consent law does not unconstitutionally force a DUI arrestee to consent to chemical tests. The defendant in the case contended that the law’s sanction, namely, loss of license for at least one year if he did not voluntarily consent to the chemical test, forced him to agree…