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Georgia Hospitals Refuse Blood Tests for DUIs

On Behalf of | Sep 2, 2015 | Blog, Blood Tests

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Several Georgia hospitals refuse blood tests for conscious DUI suspects unless the suspect consents to the test. In Georgia, as in California and most states, if police get a search warrant they can take blood from a DUI suspect by force against their will. What the police cannot do-as they are learning in Cobb, Douglas, Paulding and Cherokee Counties-is force a hospital to do the work.

Now that several Georgia hospitals refuse blood tests even if the police have a warrant, it will fall to law enforcement to employ its own staff of phlebotomists to perform these forced blood draws.