· 6/20/1986
Champion v. Department of Public Safety
Citations
- 721 P.2d 131
- 1986 Alas. LEXIS 349
How courts have described this case
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- holding failure to take reasonable steps to preserve breath sample violates due process
- extending the right to an independent test to license revocation proceedings
- to deny a driver a reasonable opportunity to test the reliability and credibility of evidence of central importance in the administrative license revocation proceeding is to deny “a meaningful and fundamentally fair hearing”
- allowing driver opportunity to test credibility of breathalyzer
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Judges: Rabinowitz, Burke, Matthews, Compton, Moore
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