Jesse Thomas Sutherland v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

11 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “The dissent .implies that we have given carte blanche to officers to draw blood in every single' DWI case. But we have given police .officers nothing more than the Constitution already gives them — the ability to apply for' a search warrant and,' if the magistrate finds probable cause to issue that warrant, the ability to effectuate it. This does not give officers the ability to forcibly obtain blood'samples from anyone arrested for DWI. Instead, it gives officers the ability to present an affidavit to a magistrate in every DWI case, just like every other criminal offense. Whether any search ultimately occurs rests, as always, in the hands of the neutral and detached magistrate.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. McGruder v. State