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State v. West

Citations

  • 557 A.2d 873
  • 151 Vt. 140
  • 1988 Vt. LEXIS 240

How courts have described this case

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  • discussing the balance a court must strike between an individual’s right to consult privately with counsel and society’s interest in obtaining and preserving evidence
  • listing cases and summarizing that “[t]he statutory mandate is fulfilled when reasonable efforts are made to allow an arrestee to consult privately with counsel”
  • requiring defendant to bear burden of proving prejudicial error and refusing to suppress test where 14 officer correctly disclosed information on informed-consent form but also gave defendant erroneous information
  • after automobile accident, defendant was arrested, processed for DUI and asked to take breath test
  • after automobile accident, defendant was arrested, processed for DUI and asked to take breath test
  • jury may consider whether test was properly administered in deciding whether to convict based on test result

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Allen, Gibson, Dooley, Mahady, Barney

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