State of Minnesota v. Todd Eugene Trahan

OPINION

GILDEA, Chief Justice.

The question we are asked to decide in this case is whether Minnesota’s test refusal statute, Minn.Stat. § 169A.20, subd. 2 (2014), is constitutional as applied to respondent Todd Eugene Trahan. After Trahan was arrested on suspicion of driving while impaired, he refused to submit to a warrantless blood test. Trahan pleaded guilty to first-degree test refusal, but in postconviction proceedings, he sought to withdraw his plea, arguing that the test refusal statute was unconstitutional as applied to him. The postconviction court denied relief, and the court of…