MOTOR VEHICLE ADMIN. v. VERMEERSCH

No. 51, September Term, 1993.

331 Md. 188 (1993)

626 A.2d 972

MOTOR VEHICLE ADMINISTRATION v. JAMES R. VERMEERSCH.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 30, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hillel Traub, Asst. Atty. Gen., Glen Burnie, and J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, for petitioner.

Findlay McCool, Elkton, for respondent.

Submitted to MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


PER CURIAM:

The issue here presented is whether a person who refused to take a test of his breath to determine alcohol concentration may avoid the mandatory sanctions prescribed by Maryland's Implied Consent Statute by subsequently taking a blood test and permitting the results of that test to be used against him at a trial for driving while intoxicated or under the influence of alcohol. We shall hold that he or she may not.

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