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Can police penalize drivers who refuse sobriety tests?

Some states have made it a crime for suspected drunk drivers to refuse a sobriety test.

04/20/2016 | Rating NR

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Can police penalize drivers who refuse sobriety tests?

Clip: 4/20/2016 | 4m 56s

Some states have made it a crime for suspected drunk drivers to refuse a sobriety test.

At least a dozen states have made it a crime for suspected drunk drivers to refuse a chemical sobriety test. But some opponents say these laws violate the Fourth Amendment, and are taking their complaints to the high court. The Supreme Court considered three related cases from North Dakota and Minnesota on Wednesday. Hari Sreenivasan talks to Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal for more.

04/20/2016 | Rating NR

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