Supreme Court Upholds 2007 OWI Arrest
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The state Supreme Court has ruled police lawfully arrested a man for drunken driving in Maple Bluff.
The opinion Tuesday says police watched Mitchell Lange crash his car around 3 a.m. in January 2007. Officers found Lange unconscious on the sidewalk and the scene soaked with gasoline.
Lange was taken to the hospital, where an officer used his driver's license to learn he had a prior conviction for driving under the influence and arrested him, then asked for an alcohol blood test.
Lange contended police didn't have enough evidence to arrest him. But the Supreme Court said the arrest was reasonable given all the circumstances.
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