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New Year Brings Changes to Implied Consent Law

By Baker Associates

Any time a DUI-related statute undergoes a change, you can bet a lot of Tennesseans will be affected. Almost 4,000 Tennesseans every year are cited for driving under the influence by the Tennessee Highway Patrol alone and countless more are cited by the law enforcement officials of the various cities and counties in Tennessee. A charge of violating the implied consent law often goes hand-in-hand with a DUI charge. To put it simply, anyone who drives a motor vehicle in Tennessee gives their implied consent that they will submit to testing for the drug or alcohol content of their blood by a law enforcement official who has reasonable grounds for desiring the test. What this law essentially does is punish Tennesseans who refuse to submit to such testing in an effort to avoid a DUI conviction...continue to full post

Full post as published by Tennessee Criminal Lawyer Blog on January 10, 2011 (boomark / email).