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Boone v. State

Citations

  • 731 P.2d 366
  • 105 N.M. 223

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • holding that a driver need only be in physical control of a vehicle and not actually driving to form probable cause to arrest
  • holding that to be convicted under DWI statute, a person must be driving or in actual physical control of the vehicle but motion of the vehicle is not necessary
  • holding that “drive” means either driving or exercising 15 actual physical control of a vehicle
  • holding that the car need not be in motion to establish actual physical control
  • holding that the car need not be in motion to establish actual physical control
  • upholding a conviction for DWI where the defendant was discovered in the driver's seat of his automobile with the engine running

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Stowers, Riordan, Federici, Sosa, Walters

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