{"id":8322,"date":"2013-05-21T07:05:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:11:33","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-04T15:11:33","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8322","title":{"rendered":"KS: A portable breath test is a search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A portable breath test is a search governed by the reasonableness clause of the Fourth Amendment. Telling the motorist he has to take the PBT renders it void; he has a choice. Also, passing the field sobriety test does not negate other evidence of intoxication. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kscourts.org\/Cases-and-Opinions\/opinions\/SupCt\/2013\/20130201\/103028.pdf\">State v. Edgar<\/a>, 296 Kan. 513, 294 P.3d 251 (2013), affg in part, revg in part  45 Kan. App. 2d 340, 246 P.3d 1013 (2011):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The PBT given in this case is considered a search and cannot be administered absent an exception to the general rule requiring search warrants. One of those exceptions occurs if the subject provides voluntary, knowing, and intelligent consent. See State v. Jones, 279 Kan. 71, 75-76, 106 P.3d 1 (2005) (quoting Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives&#8217; Assn., 489 U.S. 602, 616-17, 109 S. Ct. 1402, 103 L. Ed. 2d 639 [1989]) (&#8220;&#8216;Subjecting a person to a breathalyzer test, which generally requires the production of alveolar or &#8220;deep lung&#8221; breath for chemical analysis . . . implicates similar concerns about bodily integrity and, like the blood-alcohol test . . . [citation omitted], should also be deemed a search.'&#8221;). PBT results are used to help law enforcement officers determine whether they should arrest someone for DUI and whether to request additional testing under K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 8-1001 once the person is in custody. The officer can arrest someone in whole or in part based on PBT results. K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 8-1012(d).<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>We hold that the officer&#8217;s misstatement that Edgar had no right to refuse the PBT rendered the test involuntary. K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 8-1012(b) provides that a law enforcement officer &#8220;may request&#8221; a PBT, but not that such a test may be coerced. Telling Edgar he had no right to refuse the test transformed the test into an involuntary search by depriving Edgar of the opportunity to revoke his statutorily implied consent\u2014an opportunity expressly contemplated by K.S.A. 2010 Supp. 8-1012(c)(2), (d). Based on the officer&#8217;s misinformation, Edgar would understand he had no choice but to submit to the PBT.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, the district court erred by not suppressing the PBT results. And that error also invalidates Edgar&#8217;s DUI arrest and the subsequent blood-alcohol test. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8322\">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-8322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322","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=8322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}