Lawyer Who Won Supreme Court DUI Case: 'Straight Black-Letter Law'
Gregory Willis said the ruling that overturned a lower court was just a matter of asking the justices to leave 100 years of constitutional law intact.
February 19, 2019 at 05:24 PM
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The Georgia Supreme Court's unanimous opinion Monday barring a drunken-driving defendant's refusal to take a blood test from being used as evidence at trial is being portrayed as a bombshell ruling threatening to undermine law enforcement's ability to keep impaired drivers off the road.
In fact, as Justice Keith Blackwell noted during oral arguments last year, an array of amicus briefs filed by the Office of the Attorney General, Prosecuting Attorneys' Council of Georgia and district attorneys from Cherokee, Gwinnett and Athens-Clarke counties weighing in to support the state's implied consent law presented a “sky is falling” scenario if the justices ruled exactly as they did.
But the lawyer who argued and won the case said he believed the outcome was likely all along.
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