Case Title: State v. Velez

Citation: 175 Vt. 23, 2003 VT 1, 819 A.2d 712

Docket Number: 2002-082

State: vermont

Court: Vermont Supreme Court

Date: 2003-01-03T00:00:00Z

Document:
State v. Velez (2002-082); 175 Vt. 23; 819 A.2d 712

2003 VT 1

[Filed 03-Jan-2003]

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                                  2003 VT 1

                                No. 2002-082

  State of Vermont	                         Supreme Court

                                                 On Appeal from
       v.	                                 District Court of Vermont,
                                                 Unit No. 1, Windham Circuit

  Jorge Velez	                                 September Term, 2002

  John P. Wesley, J.

  Stuart G. Schurr, Department of State's Attorneys, Montpelier, for
    Plaintiff-Appellant.

  John C. Mabie of Gale, Corum & Mabie, Brattleboro, for Defendant-Appellee.

  PRESENT:  Amestoy, C.J., Dooley, Morse, Johnson and Skoglund, JJ.

       ¶ 1.  JOHNSON, J.   The State takes this interlocutory appeal,
  pursuant to V.R.A.P. 5(b)(1), from a Windham District Court decision
  granting defendant Jorge Velez's motion to suppress his evidentiary breath
  test results.  Defendant argued that he was deprived of the right to
  counsel that 23 V.S.A. § 1202(c) establishes for DUI detainees because the
  on-call public defender contacted by the arresting officer refused to speak
  with him.  In light of this Court's decision in State v. Gilman, __ Vt. __,