Opinion ID: 1257928
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Heading: Timothy Juarez

Text: On 14 July 1987 just before 7:00 p.m., DPS Officer Matthew Janton arrested Timothy Juarez in Cochise County near the Arizona-New Mexico border. After making arrangements for the removal of Juarez's truck from the road, the two left for Willcox, where the nearest police station with an intoxilyzer machine was located. They arrived about 8:40 p.m., and Janton began the mandatory (A.R.S. § 28-692.03) twenty-minute observation period before administering the intoxilyzer test. In requesting Juarez's consent to submit to the intoxilyzer test, Officer Janton read to the defendant the following: Arizona law requires you to submit to a breath test to determine the alcoholic content of your blood. If you refuse to submit to this test, your license or permit to drive will be suspended for twelve months. You are therefore requested to submit to a breath test. Unless you expressly agree to take the test, I will consider you are refusing. You will not be allowed to call an attorney before deciding if you will take this test. However, after you take the test, you may then telephone an attorney or friend if you choose. If you decide not to take the test, you will still be allowed to telephone an attorney, but your refusal will still result in suspension of your license or permit to drive for twelve months. (Emphasis added.) The intoxilyzer test was administered at 9:05 p.m., more than two hours after the arrest, and it showed a BAC of 0.179 percent. Juarez was charged by indictment with DUI (A.R.S. § 28-692(A)) and driving with a BAC of 0.10 percent or more. (A.R.S. § 28-692(B)). At trial, the parties stipulated that Juarez was driving with a revoked license. A jury found him guilty as charged and the court sentenced him to concurrent, maximum prison terms of four years. The court found Juarez's eight prior DUI convictions and the fact that he consciously posed a risk to others by deciding to drive while intoxicated and without a license to be aggravating circumstances. Additionally, the court noted that pursuant to one of Juarez's prior convictions, he had been sentenced to two years in prison.