Dean v. State

Hunstein, Justice.

On December 10,1994, Phillip L. Dean was arrested by the Lawrenceville police at a roadblock and charged with driving under the influence of marijuana. At the time of his arrest, Dean was on probation for forgery and was being supervised by the Gwinnett County probation office. As a special condition of probation, Dean was subject to random drug tests administered by the probation office. Such a test was administered approximately five days after Dean’s DUI arrest, and his urine sample was tested for the presence of marijuana or its metabolites.

In January 1996, as the…