{"id":24981,"date":"2016-12-27T00:01:01","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T05:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24981"},"modified":"2016-12-24T08:08:32","modified_gmt":"2016-12-24T13:08:32","slug":"wa-following-mcneely-holds-that-refusal-to-take-a-breath-test-is-admissible-on-question-of-guilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24981","title":{"rendered":"WA following McNeely holds that there is no per se exigency and refusal to take a breath test is admissible on question of guilt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Applying McNeely: \u201cThe district courts correctly rejected the State&#8217;s argument that alcohol dissipation constitutes exigency per se\u2014exigency must be determined under the totality of circumstances, case by case. We hold that the implied consent statute does not authorize a warrantless search, and a driver has no constitutional right to refuse a breath test because such a search falls under the search incident to arrest exception to the warrant requirement. Further, although the implied consent statute gives a driver a statutory right to refuse the test, by exercising the privilege to drive, a driver consents to admitting that refusal to take the breath test into evidence. Accordingly, we hold that a driver&#8217;s refusal is admissible as evidence of guilt under Washington&#8217;s implied consent law.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courts.wa.gov\/opinions\/pdf\/904197.pdf\">State v. Baird<\/a>, 2016 Wash. LEXIS 1377 (Dec. 22, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Applying McNeely: \u201cThe district courts correctly rejected the State&#8217;s argument that alcohol dissipation constitutes exigency per se\u2014exigency must be determined under the totality of circumstances, case by case. We hold that the implied consent statute does not authorize a warrantless &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=24981\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24983,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24981\/revisions\/24983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}