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BEFORE CONSENTING TO A BREATHALYZER BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST IN THIS DWI CASE, MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER DEFENDANT’S ARREST, DEFENDANT WAS INACCURATELY TOLD A TEST REFUSAL WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL, DEFENDANT’S CONSENT TO THE TEST WAS THEREFORE NOT VOLUNTARY, EVIDENCE PROPERLY SUPPRESSED (CT APP).

The Court of Appeals, in a full-fledged opinion by Judge Stein, over a concurrence and a three-judge extensive dissent, determined that the warnings given defendant driver about the consequences of refusing to take the breathalyzer blood-alcohol test were inaccurate, rendering the defendant’s consent to the test involuntary and requiring the suppression of all evidence. The warnings, which were given more than two hours after defendant’s DWI arrest, inaccurately stated that evidence of defendant’s test refusal would be admissible at trial:

… [B]ecause the breathalyzer test was not performed within two hours of defendant’s arrest, and the requirements necessary to obtain a court order pursuant to Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1194 (3) were not met, the test results were not admissible under the statutory scheme (see Vehicle and Traffic Law § 1195 [1]; see also Smith, 18 NY3d at 550-551 [holding that, absent compliance with the statute, even evidence of a refusal must be suppressed]). Nevertheless, … the test results may still be admissible if defendant voluntarily consented to take the test because “the two-hour limitation . . . has no application” when the “defendant [has] expressly and voluntarily consented to administration of the [breath] test” … . The issue before us, then, is whether defendant gave his voluntary consent to the administration of the test, which generally presents a mixed question of law and fact … . However, it is undisputed that defendant expressly consented only after the expiration of the two-hour period and after being warned about the consequences of failing to do so; the parties’ dispute here turns on whether the warnings were legally accurate and, consequently, whether his consent was voluntary … .We conclude that, because more than two hours had passed since defendant’s arrest, the warning that evidence of his refusal to take the breathalyzer test would be admissible at trial was inaccurate as a matter of law and, therefore, the record supports the conclusion of the courts below that his consent to the test was involuntary. People v Odum, 2018 NY Slip Op 03173, CtApp 5-3-18

​CRIMINAL LAW (DWI, BEFORE CONSENTING TO A BREATHALYZER BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST IN THIS DWI CASE, MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER DEFENDANT’S ARREST, DEFENDANT WAS  INACCURATELY TOLD A TEST REFUSAL WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL, DEFENDANT’S CONSENT TO THE TEST WAS THEREFORE NOT VOLUNTARY, EVIDENCE PROPERLY SUPPRESSED (CT APP))/EVIDENCE (CRIMINAL LAW, DWI, BREATHALYZER, BEFORE CONSENTING TO A BREATHALYZER BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST IN THIS DWI CASE, MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER DEFENDANT’S ARREST, DEFENDANT WAS  INACCURATELY TOLD A TEST REFUSAL WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL, DEFENDANT’S CONSENT TO THE TEST WAS THEREFORE NOT VOLUNTARY, EVIDENCE PROPERLY SUPPRESSED (CT APP))/BREATHALYZER (BEFORE CONSENTING TO A BREATHALYZER BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST IN THIS DWI CASE, MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER DEFENDANT’S ARREST, DEFENDANT WAS  INACCURATELY TOLD A TEST REFUSAL WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL, DEFENDANT’S CONSENT TO THE TEST WAS THEREFORE NOT VOLUNTARY, EVIDENCE PROPERLY SUPPRESSED (CT APP))/DRIVING WHILE INTOXICATED (DWI) (BREATHALYZER, BEFORE CONSENTING TO A BREATHALYZER BLOOD-ALCOHOL TEST IN THIS DWI CASE, MORE THAN TWO HOURS AFTER DEFENDANT’S ARREST, DEFENDANT WAS  INACCURATELY TOLD A TEST REFUSAL WOULD BE ADMISSIBLE AT TRIAL, DEFENDANT’S CONSENT TO THE TEST WAS THEREFORE NOT VOLUNTARY, EVIDENCE PROPERLY SUPPRESSED (CT APP))

May 3, 2018/by Bruce Freeman
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