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NY Court of Appeals Affirms Dismissal of DWI for Improper Breathalyzer Refusal Warning
by Dale Chappell
The Court of Appeals of New York found that a driver’s eventual consent to a breathalyzer test was “coerced” and involuntary after police waited more than two hours to ask him to consent to the test. The Court held that the officer’s warning that his refusal could ...
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