Williams v. Director of Revenue

DON E. BURRELL, Presiding Judge.

This case requires us to determine whether a driver’s request to speak to an attorney after she has been Mirandized1 but before she has been asked to submit to any blood alcohol or drug content testing pursuant to section 577.0202 (“a chemical test”) is sufficient to invoke the twenty-minute time period to attempt to contact an attorney granted by section 577.041.1 (“the twenty-minute rule”). The other two districts of our Court have addressed this question and reached differing conclusions. We join our colleagues in the Eastern District in finding section…