In most states you’re allowed to not take the roadside breath test, despite cops lying like motherfuckers about it. It’s the one at the station after you’ve been arrested that you have to take if you don’t want to automatically get your license taken for like a year, and they always do at least two different samples between that breath test, urine, and blood. Don’t do those and you’re pretty much guaranteed you lose your license and get the DUI charge as well.
XeroxCool@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That is the opposite of another comment here. I guess I’ll beleive neither and refuse both tests to play it safe
17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Different states have different laws. I’m in Louisiana and refusing a breath test automatically triggers a license suspension
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
And you’ve been lied to and you’re wrong. I just read your Louisiana revised statute 32.666 and you don’t have to take a preliminary breath test (the little one the cops use on the side of the road).
Again, though. Not a lawyer. Speak to your lawyer in Louisiana and ask them. Other jurisdictions may have different laws.
17jGuFCOn89iY@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Like I said, your license can be suspended. That means you can still refuse it.
But most importantly, read 32:661 if you want to be insufferable about it. We have an implied consent law.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Ask a lawyer in your state sometime. You will very likely discover that you can and should refuse the roadside stuff.