JESSICA NICHOLE RIALS v. DIRECTOR OF REVENUE, Respondent-Respondent.

I concur in the result and with the majority opinion as far as it goes; however, I question the implication in the majority opinion that, once the driver has reached an attorney by telephone, the twenty-minute provision in the statute has been complied with. The critical issue, as I see it, is whether Appellant abandoned her attempts to contact an attorney within the twenty-minute period allowed by section 577.041, RSMo Cum.Supp.2013.

There are two key sentences in the statute: the first allows a person to request to speak to an attorney and allows twenty minutes within which to do so, and the…