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Legal Coercion In Drunk Driving Cases in Los Angeles
When a police officer influences a person to consent to a search, the consent is not valid. Such influence can be called “implied coercion”, and if it does, the court will throw out the results of a search. Search in DUI cases usually means obtaining blood or breath results after a Los Angeles DUI arrest. If the court throws out the results of a blood test, the prosecutor will likely dismiss the DUI case because it is very hard to prosecute a DUI without blood alcohol results. In a federal case called Bumper v. North Carolina (391 US 543), police officers came into a house by holding some papers in front of a defendant’s mother and telling her that they […]