State Supreme Court Rules You Can be Charged With OWI in Your Own Driveway

Thursday, June 16th, 2022 -- 12:00 PM

(Raymond Neupert, WRN) The State Supreme Court says police can arrest you for drunk driving if you're parked in your own driveway.

In a 6-1 ruling, the State Supreme Court says a judge did not make a mistake in issuing a warrant for a blood draw for Valiant Green after police arrested him for probable OWI in 2019.

The request for a warrant was a preprinted form, and Green's attorney tried to argue that police had no cause to search Green because they couldn't assume that Green drove on a public road. The Supreme Court disagreed. Green was charged with 4th time OWI and resisting arrest.

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