Legal Opinion
Coombs v. Pierce
California Court of Appeal
Decided December 4, 1991No. F015409PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
VARTABEDIAN, J.
This appeal concerns the proof of a person’s blood-alcohol concentration needed to sustain an “administrative per se” suspension of that person’s license to drive. Before reciting the particulars of the instant case, we synopsize, in relevant part, the statutory scheme involved.
A law went into effect on July 1, 1990, authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to revoke a person’s privilege to drive a motor vehicle for either six months or one year for driving with a concentration of alcohol in his or her blood equal to or in excess of .10 percent. (Stats. 1989,…
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