Legal Opinion
State v. Smith
Washington Supreme Court
Decided September 19, 1996No. 63319-3PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTalmadge, J.
— Rodger Smith almost ran into a state trooper head-on. The trooper detained him and he failed *218field sobriety tests given at the scene. The trooper then administered, with Smith’s consent, a portable breath test (PBT), not approved by the state toxicologist. The trooper did not preserve any evidence of the PBT result. Smith was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs (DUI), given his implied consent statutory warnings, and subsequently tested 0.12 for blood alcohol on the BAC Verifier DataMaster breathalyzer at Spokane’s Public Safety Building.
Smith was convicted of DUI…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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- California v. TrombettaSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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3Cited by16 opinions
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