Important DUI Cases

Arizona v. Gant, 556 U.S. ____ (2009):

In Gant, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that an officer cannot search an arrestee’s vehicle simply because the individual was lawfully arrested (known as a search incident to arrest).  To justify a search an officer must also have probable cause to believe that evidence of a crime is located within the vehicle.

Seattle v. Quezada, 165 Wn.2d____ (2009):

A “prior offense” under Washington’s DUI statute means an offense that occurred prior to the current offense.  While this sounds pretty straight forward the issue did make it all the way to the Supreme Court and actually overturned an appellate court ruling in opposite to this ruling.   

State v. Tonelli-Prado, 145 Wn.App. 646 (2008):

Travelling outside one’s lane of travel a single time, without additional observations, does not justify a traffic stop for DUI.

State v. Nguyen, 165 Wn.App. 428 (2008):

Physical Control is an included offense of DUI.  Thus in Washington DUI cases, prosecutors may advance both a DUI and Physical Control theory at trial without charging separate offenses.  Note: In Washington the question is whether a charge is an “included offense” as opposed to a “lesser included offense” (which is the inquiry in most States).

More Important Washington DUI cases:

Airway Heights v. Dilley

Alforde v. DOL

Alwood v. Harper

Auburn v. Hedlund

Ball v. DOL

Bellevue v. Olson

Bellevue v. Moffitt

Bellevue v. Redlack

Blaine v. Suess

Bokor v. DOL

Borger v. DOL

Bremerton v. Corbett

Bremerton v. Tucker

Burnett v. DOL

Butler v. Kato

Campbell v. DOL

Cannon v. DOL

Clarkston v. Stone

Clement v. DOL

Clough v. Seattle

Clyde Hill v. Rodriguez

Conolly v. DMV

Cooper v. DOL

College Place v. Staudenmaier

DOL v. Lax

DOL v. McElwain

DOL v. Sheeks

Edmonds v. Ostby

Fircrest v. Jensen

Frank v. DOL

Gibson v. DOL

Graham v. DOL

Grewal v. DOL

Hienemann v. Whitman

In re Richie

Johnson v. DOL

Jury v. DOL

Keefe v. DOL

Kent v. Beigh

Kent v. Jenkins

Kirkland v. O’Connor

Letourneau v. DOL

Lewis v. DOL

Lytle v. DOL

Mairs v. DOL

McGuire v. Seattle

Medcalf v. DOL

Medcalf v. DOL

Medina v. Primm

Montesano v. Wells

Mount Vernon v. Cochran

Mount Vernon v. Mount Vernon Municipal Court

Mount Vernon v. Quazada-Avila

Nettles v. DOL

O’Neil v. DOL

Pattison v. DOL

Paulson v. DOL

Richland v. Michel

Rockwell v. DOL

Roethle v. DOL

Schlegel v.DOL

Seattle v. Allison

Seattle v. Box

Seattle v. Carnell

Seattle v. Clark-Munoz

Seattle v. Fettig

Seattle v. Gellein

Seattle v. Heatley

Seattle v. Koch

Seattle v. Mesiani

Seattle v. Norby

Seattle v. Personeus

Seattle v. Sandholm

Seattle v. Stalsbroten

Seattle v. Tolliver

Seattle v. Wakenight

Seattle v. Williams

Shelden v. DOL

Shuman v. DOL

Smith v. DOL

Spokane v. Beck

Spokane v. Kruger

State v. Amurri

State v. Anderson

State v. Avery

State v. Baity

State v. Baker

State v. Baldwin

State v. Barefield

State v. Bartels

State v. Bays

State v. Bence

State v. Berkley

State v. Bosio

State v. Bostrom

State v. Brayman

State v. Brockman

State v. Brockob

State v. Cascade District Court

State v. Cerrillo

State v. Cissne

State v. Clark

State v. Cohen

State v. Cole

State v. Crediford

State v. Darnell

State v. Day

State v. Donahue

State v. Dunivin

State v. Elgin

State v. Entzel

State v. Evergreen District Court

State v. Fitzsimmons

State v. Ford

State v. Franco

State v. Garrett

State v. Gettman

State v. Gillenwater

State v. Glessner

State v. Grant

State v. Griffith

State v. Hahn

State v. Hansen

State v. Hamrick

State v. Hazzard

State v. Henthorn

State v. Hettich

State v. Higley

State v. Hill

State v. Holcomb

State v. Hultenschmidt

State v. Hurd

State v. Ivie

State v. Johnson

State v. Jones

State v. Keller

State v. Kirkpatrick

State v. Knox

State v. Kronich

State v. Kuhn

State v. Lewis

State v. Long

State v. MacKenzie

State v. Martin

State v. Maxey

State v. McClendon

State v. McGinty

State v. McNichols

State v. Merritt

State v. Olsson

State v. O’Neill

State v. Ortiz

State v. Parker

State v. Peterson

State v. Prok

State v. Randhawa

State v. Reed

State v. Reid

State v. Reier

State v. Rivard

State v. Robbins

State v. Rogers

State v. Rogers

State v. Rushing

State v. Russell

State v. Shabel

State v. Sanchez

State v. Shattuck

State v. Sjogren

State v. Smelter

State v. Smith

State v. Straka

State v. Stannard

State v. Steinbrunn

State v. Stivason

State v. Teller

State v. Templeton

State v. Terrovona

State v. Thomas

State v. Trevino

State v. Vasquez

State v. Votava

State v. Walker

State v. Watson

State v. Weston

State v. Wilbur-Bobb

State v. Whitman County District Court

State v. Wilhelm

State v. Williams

State v. Wittenbarger

State v. Woolbright

State v. Zwicker

Steffen v. DOL

Sunnyside v. Fernandez

Sunnyside v. Sanchez

Sunnyside v. Wendt

Tacoma v. Belasco

Tacoma v. Durhman

Tennant v. Roys

Thompson v. DOL

Thompson v. DOL

Vance v. DOL

Waid v. DOL

Walk v. DOL

Walla Walla v. Greene

Walla Walla v. Greene – dissent

Walla Walla v. Topel

Williams v. DOL

Williams v. DOL

Woolman v. DOL