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New York Court of Appeals Roundup: Court Decides Issue of License Revocation Upon Driver’s Refusal to Submit to Blood Test

03.16.22

In their column in the New York Law Journal, Litigation Partners Bill Russell and Linton Mann III discuss Matter of Endara-Caicedo v. New York State Department of Motor Vehicleswhere the Court of Appeals addressed the circumstances in which a motorist will be subject to revocation of her driver’s license for refusing to submit to a chemical blood alcohol test. The majority held that a motorist cannot avoid revocation even when the request to submit to a test takes place more than two hours after the arrest, even though a two hour temporal limitation does apply to the use of that refusal as evidence in a subsequent criminal proceeding.

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