Case ID: nw2d_895/html/0314-02.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

2017 ND 130
    Caleb Wesley JUNAS, Appellant v. DIRECTOR, NORTH DAKOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, Appellee
    No. 20160440
    Supreme Court of North Dakota.
    Filed 6/7/2017
    Danny L. Herbel, Bismarck, ND, for appellant.
    Michael T. Pitcher, Office of the Attorney General, Bismarck, ND, for appellee.
   Per Curiam.

[¶ 1] Caleb Junas appealed from a judgment affirming a Department of Transportation decision suspending his driving privileges for 91 days after he submitted to a warrantless blood test incident to arrest and the result of that test established an alcohol concentration above the legal limit. Junas argues he was illegally searched and seized before he submitted to a preliminary breath test and he thereafter did not voluntarily consent to a warrantless blood test incident to his arrest.

[¶ 2] We affirm under N.D.R.App.P. 35.1(a)(5) and (7), Beylund v. Levi, 2017 ND 30, 889 N.W.2d 907 (holding exclusionary rule and North Dakota law do not require exclusion of results of warrantless blood test in civil administrative license suspension proceeding), and Barrios-Flores v. Levi, 2017 ND 117, 894 N.W.2d 888 (holding law enforcement officer may request onsite screening test of driver’s breath based on reasonable suspicion driver was driving while impaired).

[¶ 3] Gerald W. VandeWalle, C. J.

Jerod E. Tufte

Daniel J. Crothers

Lisa Fair McEvers

Carol Ronning Kapsner