Tennessee DUI Law Now Allows Forced Blood Tests on DUI Convicts
A new Tennessee DUI law has gone into effect and as of January 1st police at traffic stops can now force blood tests on prior DUI offenders, as opposed to giving them the option under implied consent.
“Police can pull someone over for not wearing their seatbelts and then notice the smell of alcohol or the bloodshot eyes, it’s not something you have to know before you pull them over that they’re drunk,” says Kate Lavery from the District Attorney’s office.
“Before January 1st, all we could do was to remove their license which might have already been removed so this will help us deal with the problem of multiple offender DUI’s,” says Lavery.
Others, however, who have been convicted of DUI in the past, feel the law is unfair; that it violates their rights as citizens. One of them, David C., spoke up on the matter:
“I think people who have made mistakes with DUI in the past still has rights and they certainly have to pay the consequences, but it seems a little bit to far,” says David.
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