Court Opinion

ID: 9822140
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 08:48:20.318646+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:39:01.900026
License: Public Domain

HELENE N. WHITE, Circuit Judge,
concurring.
I concur in the majority opinion except with respect to the conclusions that there was probable cause, as a matter of law, to seize and to seek suspension of Bailey’s license. It is not clear to me that a reasonable officer in Lorenz’s position had probable cause to conclude that Bailey’s request to speak to his attorney and agreement to take the chemical test only after learning that it would be performed at the jail were for the purpose of delay. Nevertheless, I concur in the affirmance as to these claims because the law in Michigan on these issues was sufficiently unclear that a reasonable officer in Lorenz’s position would not have known that his actions were unlawful.