Court of Appeals of Arizona· 1/30/2004

State v. Rivera

Citations

83 P.3d 69
207 Ariz. 69
418 Ariz. Adv. Rep. 3
2004 Ariz. App. LEXIS 21

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holding a passenger grabbing and turning a steering wheel assumed actual physical control for purposes of DUI statute
“[A] person who drives a vehicle actually physically controls it; driving is a subset of actual physical control.”
“[W]e conclude that, a passenger who grabs the steering wheel of a moving car and alters the car’s movement has assumed actual physical control for purposes of the DUI statutes.”
“These cases broadly demonstrate that by including ‘actual physical control,’ the legislature intended to extend the DUI statutes to encompass those situations in which a person who is not actually driving nonetheless poses an equivalent risk.”
passenger grabbing steering wheel of car has exercised actual physical control
right to notice under Arizona Constitution equivalent to Sixth Amendment right

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Judges: Espinosa, Pelander, Eckerstrom

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