State v. Ironside

In this civil license-suspension proceeding, the district court denied defendant’s motion to suppress results of an evidentiary breath test and stayed suspension of defendant’s license pending appeal. Defendant appeals, arguing that he was denied the assistance of counsel required under 23 VS.A. § 1202(c) when the police refused to provide his appointed counsel with information from a background record check of defendant’s prior driving offenses. We affirm.

On May 5,1996, while being processed for DUI, defendant indicated that he wished to speak with an attorney prior to submitting to an…