When a police officer arrests you for DUI in San Diego, California law allows him to request that you submit to a blood or breath test. If however, neither of these are available, the officer has the right to request a urine sample from you. Knowing your rights when it “DUI in San Diego: Do I Have to Give Urine for a DUI If Asked?”
Police Must Get a Warrant to Forcibly Draw Blood from Drunk Driving or DUI Suspects
The United States Supreme Court this week struck down law enforcement’s ability to forcibly draw blood from a drunk driving or DUI suspect without a warrant, absent some articulable exigent circumstance. Police have long relied on the argument that the dissipation of the alcohol from the blood stream created an “Police Must Get a Warrant to Forcibly Draw Blood from Drunk Driving or DUI Suspects”