Birchfield
Roulette with breath testing refusal- Fairfax criminal lawyer speaks
Roulette may end up being the exercise when a Virginia DUI defendant declines post-arrest breath testing, because if a blood search warrant follows, that often is accompanied with a breath testing refusal charge, which, if convicted as a first offense, amounts to one year of...
Virginia DWI – Court of Appeals permits warrantless blood draws by silence
Virginia's Court of Appeals asserted this week that it complied with Supreme Court case law when permitting a warrantless blood draw in a DWI case where the defendant was neither asked whether he would take the test nor refused. I disagree. Wolfe v. Virginia, ___...
When SCOTUS’s Birchfield decision will help a DWI defendant’s case
Under Birchfield, refusal to submit to a blood test cannot be criminalized, and "consent" to a blood test can be challenged if the police warned the arrestee that blood test refusal risks criminal penalty(ies).
