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· 3/31/2010

Lapp v. South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles

Citations

  • 692 S.E.2d 565
  • 387 S.C. 500
  • 2010 S.C. App. LEXIS 50

How courts have described this case

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  • concluding the ALC did not err in affirming the OMVH hearing officer's determination that probable cause existed to arrest the defendant for DUI where the arresting officer detected a strong odor of alcohol coming from the defendant's vehicle and she refused to perform a field sobriety test
  • \An officer may lawfully arrest for a misdemeanor not committed within his presence where the facts and circumstances observed by the officer give him probable cause to believe that a crime has been freshly committed.\

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Judges: Per Curiam

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