STATE v. HAMMONDS

No. 1 CA-CR 97-0420.

968 P.2d 601 (1998)

192 Ariz. 528

STATE of Arizona, Appellee, v. Jack Ray HAMMONDS, Appellant.

Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division 1, Department B.

Review Denied December 7, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Grant Woods, Attorney General by Paul J. McMurdie, Chief Counsel, Criminal Appeals Section, and Serena Christion, Assistant Attorney General, Phoenix, for Appellee.

Dean W. Trebesch, Maricopa County Public Defender by Stephen R. Collins, Deputy Public Defender, Phoenix, for Appellant.


OPINION

SULT, Judge.

¶ 1 Jack Ray Hammonds appeals from his conviction and sentence on one count of aggravated driving while a drug or its metabolite was present in his body, a class 4 felony. The sole issue on appeal is whether the statute prohibiting driving while a metabolite of a drug is present in the driver's body violates the equal protection clauses of the federal and Arizona constitutions. For the reasons that follow, we affirm.

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