DUI Blood Draw

DUI suspect has blood drawn

In this Sept. 11, 2009 photo photo, Phoenix Police Department Officer James Lawler, of the DUI Squad, draws blood from an alleged extreme DUI suspect as he works out of a mobile DUI processing van in Phoenix. The nation’s highest court ruled in 1966 that police could have blood tests forcibly done on a drunk driving suspect without a warrant, as long as the draw was based on a reasonable suspicion that a suspect was intoxicated, that it was done after an arrest and carried out in a medically approved manner. The practice of cops drawing blood, implemented first in 1995 in Arizona, has also raised concerns about safety and the credibility of the evidence. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)

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