MacLeod v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

In the early morning of January 1, 2000, Alaska State Trooper Sergeant Lee Oly arrested eighteen-year-old Bradley A. Mac-Leod for driving while intoxicated. MacLeod submitted to a breath test, which showed that his blood aleohol level was .165 percent.

Because MacLeod was only eighteen years old, Sergeant Oly telephoned MacLeod's mother, Kim Campbell, and asked her to come to the trooper station so that MacLeod could be released to her custody.

Campbell arrived at the station at about the same time that Oly was telling MacLeod about his right to an independent blood…