Results - GRL Law

January 18, 2021

The drug defense attorneys at GRL Law prove once again that preparation is everything when it comes to implied consent testing and DOT administrative hearings. This is especially true when it involves professional CDL drivers and forensic drug testing. In this case, a DOT officer assigned to an I-35 weigh station in North Iowa believed he had reasonable grounds to invoke implied consent and request a urine sample under Iowa Code section 321J.6 based on the discovery of a small amount of marijuana and an admission to smoking the previous evening. When the sample came back positive for non-impairing metabolites...

December 18, 2020

Poweshiek County, Iowa. Carrying Weapons While Intoxicated and Operating While Intoxicated charges avoided due to misleading information provided to GRL's client at the time breath testing was requested. GRL's client had a prior out-of-state offense for operating while intoxicated but Iowa law did not authorize law enforcement to treat the new offense as a second offense. As a result, GRL's client was provided incorrect information at the time he consented to chemical testing thereby rending his consent involuntary. The subsequently obtained test result was excluded from trial, making it significantly more difficult for the prosecution to prove intoxication. Charges were...