{"id":5246,"date":"2013-01-07T05:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-05T10:12:21","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5246","title":{"rendered":"MT: Refusing a breath test justifies seizure of a driver&#8217;s license, but it can&#8217;t be suppressed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDriving in Montana constitutes a privilege, not a right.\u201d Taking one\u2019s driver\u2019s license for refusing a breath test was a reasonable seizure, and there is nothing to suppress. <a href=\"http:\/\/searchcourts.mt.gov\/view\/DA%2010-0175%20Published%20--%20Opinion?id={21EB7881-AEF5-4365-BA35-A92EF1960599}\">Nichols v. Dept. Of Justice, Drivers\u2019 License Bureau<\/a>, 2011 MT 33, 359 Mont. 251, 248 P.3d 813 (2011).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant was driving slowly through a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polarisindustries.com\/en-us\/Vehicles\/Pages\/Home.aspx\">Polaris dealer\u2019s<\/a> parking lot at night with his headlights off. Considering the expensive inventory, the officer thought that really suspicious and stopped him, and he was found to be under the influence. The stop was valid. <a href=\"http:\/\/searchcourts.mt.gov\/view\/DA%2010-0128%20Published%20--%20Opinion?id={F63BDAE9-BE35-4FAF-BA39-AF1D985405CE}\">State v. Rodriguez<\/a>, 2011 MT 36, 359 Mont. 281, 248 P.3d 850 (2011).*<\/p>\n<p>Like in <a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=3128854250640310684&amp;q=Hodari%2BD.&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=1002\">Hodari D.<\/a>, defendant was approached by the police and he turned to walk away, discarding a bag of dope in the process, and that was an abandonment. <a href=\"http:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&amp;pdf=MjAxMS8wOS0xNTg2LTEucGRm\">State v. Eaton<\/a>, 2011 N.C. App. LEXIS 319 (March 1, 2011).*<\/p>\n<p>UNCG University police had a mutual aid agreement with the local police, and a stop by the University police outside of its jurisdiction was not a substantial violation of state law to justify suppressing the arrest. <a href=\"http:\/\/appellate.nccourts.org\/opinions\/?c=2&amp;pdf=MjAxMS8xMC05MjEtMS5wZGY=\">State v. Scruggs<\/a>, 209 N.C. App. 725, 706 S.E.2d 836 (2011).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=5246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}