Source: https://cbaclelegalconnection.com/2017/05/19/
Timestamp: 2019-04-21 10:53:58+00:00

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The Colorado Supreme Court issued its opinion in People v. Sewick on Monday, May 15, 2017.
Searches and Seizures—Refusal to Submit to Blood-Alcohol Testing—Admission of Refusal Evidence.
In this interlocutory appeal, the supreme court considered whether the prosecution’s use of a defendant’s refusal to consent to blood-alcohol testing as evidence of guilt at trial for a drunk-driving offense, in accordance with C.R.S. § 42-4-1301(6)(d), violates his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. Because the court recently held in Fitzgerald v. People, 2017 CO 26, that the use of such refusal evidence does not violate the Fourth Amendment, that holding controls here, and defendant’s challenge to C.R.S. § 42-4-1301(6)(d) fails. The court therefore reversed the trial court’s order.
The Colorado Supreme Court issued its opinion in People v. Maxwell on Monday, May 15, 2017.
In this interlocutory appeal, the supreme court considered whether the prosecution’s use of a defendant’s refusal to consent to blood-alcohol testing as evidence of guilt at trial for a drunk-driving offense, in accordance with C.R.S. § 42-4-1301(6)(d), violates his Fourth Amendment right to be free from unreasonable searches. Because the court recently held in Fitzgerald v. People, 2017 CO 26, P.3d, that the use of such refusal evidence does not violate the Fourth Amendment, that holding controls here, and defendant’s challenge to C.R.S. § 42-4-1301(6)(d) fails. The court therefore reversed the trial court’s order.

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