The Forcible Extraction of Blood in Impaired Driving Cases: How Much Force Is Too Much Force?

Published for NC Criminal Law on February 15, 2012.

The lead story in the January 30, 2012 issue of North Carolina Lawyer’s Weekly was headlined “Necessary’s Restraint:  The night police officer Richard Necessary sat on a drunk-driving suspect in order to get a blood sample might prove to be the night when courts realized enough is enough.” The newspaper reported that a superior court ... Read more

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