Legal Opinion
State v. Hammonds
Court of Appeals of Arizona
Decided April 28, 1998No. 1 CA-CR 97-0420PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SULT, Judge.
¶ 1 Jack Ray Hammonds appeals from his conviction and sentence on one count of aggravated driving while a drug or its metabolite was present in his body, a class 4 felony. The sole issue on appeal is whether the statute prohibiting driving while a metabolite of a drug is present in the driver’s body violates the equal protection clauses of the federal and Arizona constitutions. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.
BACKGROUND
¶ 2 In June 1995, Hammonds was stopped by Glendale police for driving a vehicle with an expired registration tag and a fictitious license plate. The…
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