As David Howes lay unconscious and injured in his hospital bed, a Dane County Sheriff’s Deputy took the curious step of reading to him the warnings from the “informing the accused” form, and then asking the form’s ultimate question: “Will you submit to an evidentiary chemical test of your blood?”

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The effect of the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling rejecting a per se rule allowing warrantless blood testing in suspected drunken driving cases will be felt far beyond DUI cases, defense attorneys said.

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In the wake of (Wednesday's) decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Missouri v. McNeely, DUI defense attorneys across the land are doing the “happy dance.”

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Police must obtain a search warrant in many cases to draw blood to get evidence of drunken driving, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a divided opinion in a case involving a Missouri man.

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The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court appeared unwilling Wednesday to allow police to take blood samples from suspected drunk drivers without a warrant.

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The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a police officer who drew a DUI suspect’s blood after he refused to consent violated the Fourth Amendment.

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