{"id":18136,"date":"2015-07-23T08:09:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18136"},"modified":"2015-07-23T08:09:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T13:09:41","slug":"ca8-implied-consent-law-is-not-coercive-of-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18136","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Implied consent law is not coercive of consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s summary judgment against her for her consensual blood draw in the face of the state\u2019s implied consent law is affirmed. \u201c\u2018[T]he choice to submit or refuse to take a blood-alcohol test will not be an easy or pleasant one for a suspect to make[, b]ut the criminal process often requires suspects and defendants to make difficult choices.\u2019 Neville, 459 U.S. at 564. Wall&#8217;s choice was undoubtedly difficult in view of the penalties of refusal, but the implied consent procedure is an important \u2018legal tool[]\u2019 states have at their disposal \u2018to enforce their drunk-driving laws and secure BAC evidence.\u2019 McNeely, 569 U.S. at ___, 133 S. Ct. at 1566 (plurality opinion). Wall&#8217;s dilemma, alone, does not satisfy her burden of nullifying her otherwise uninhibited consent. See Der, 666 F.3d at 1128.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/15\/07\/142878P.pdf\">Wall v. Stanek<\/a>, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 12527 (8th Cir. July 21, 2015).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s summary judgment against her for her consensual blood draw in the face of the state\u2019s implied consent law is affirmed. \u201c\u2018[T]he choice to submit or refuse to take a blood-alcohol test will not be an easy or pleasant one &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=18136\">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":[24,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consent","category-drug-testing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18137,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18136\/revisions\/18137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}