Durant v. City of Suffolk

How courts have described this case

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

• finding that the defendant’s “warrantless arrest was unlawful” and that he thus “was not bound under the statute to submit to a breathalyzer test”
• certificate of analysis admissible “so long as the accused has first been validly arrested”
• “Had the Defendant consented to a breathalyzer or blood alcohol test here, the certificate of analysis itself would have been inadmissible because it was not obtained pursuant to a lawful arrest.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).