Sandlin, Lawrence Clark ( 2015 )


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  •                                                                                       PD-1000-15
    COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
    AUSTIN, TEXAS
    Transmitted 8/4/2015 3:23:58 PM
    No. _______________                      Accepted 8/6/2015 2:14:26 PM
    ABEL ACOSTA
    CLERK
    COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS
    OF TEXAS
    The State of Texas,
    Appellant                               August 6, 2015
    v.
    Lawrence Clark Sandlin
    from the Court of Appeals for the
    Fifth Judicial District at Dallas
    05-14-00072-CR
    STATE’S PETITION FOR DISCRETIONARY REVIEW
    An appeal from the 416th Judicial District Court, Collin County, Texas
    The Honorable Chris Oldner, Judge Presiding
    Greg Willis
    Criminal District Attorney
    Collin County, Texas
    John R. Rolater, Jr.
    Chief of the Appellate Division
    Emily Johnson-Liu
    Assistant Criminal District Attorney
    2100 Bloomdale Rd., Suite 200
    McKinney, TX 75071
    State Bar No. 24032600
    (972) 548-4323 FAX (214) 491-4860
    ejohnson-liu@co.collin.tx.us
    Identity of Judge, Parties, and Counsel
    Trial Court............................THE HONORABLE CHRIS OLDNER
    Presiding Judge
    416th District Court
    Collin County, TX
    Appellant ..............................THE STATE OF TEXAS
    Greg Willis
    District Attorney
    Matt Rolston
    (Former) Assistant District Attorney
    TRIAL COUNSEL
    Emily Johnson-Liu
    Assistant District Attorney
    APPELLATE COUNSEL
    Collin County District Attorney’s Office
    2100 Bloomdale Rd., Suite 200
    McKinney, Texas 75071
    Appellee ................................LAWRENCE CLARK SANDLIN
    John Gioffredi
    4131 N. Central Expressway, Ste 680
    Dallas, Texas 75204
    TRIAL COUNSEL
    Jerry D. Kelly
    4131 N. Central Expressway, Ste 110
    Dallas, Texas 75204
    APPELLATE COUNSEL
    i
    Table of Contents
    Identity of Judge, Parties, and Counsel .................................................... i
    Index of Authorities.................................................................................. iv
    Statement Regarding Oral Argument ...................................................... 1
    Statement of the Case ............................................................................... 1
    Statement of Procedural History .............................................................. 1
    Grounds for Review ................................................................................... 2
    Issue One
    An officer’s reliance on the mandatory blood-draw
    provision for DWIs with a child passenger (Transp.
    Code § 724.012(b)(2)) was reasonable under the
    Fourth Amendment and did not require suppression
    of the blood-test results. (RR 5-25)
    Issue Two
    Given that a motion for rehearing was and still is
    pending in State v. Villarreal and thus Villarreal does
    not have the status of law, the court of appeals erred
    in treating Villarreal as dictating the result in the
    instant case.
    The Facts and Issues Argued Below ......................................................... 2
    Argument ................................................................................................... 6
    I. The blood results should not have been suppressed ........................... 6
    A. Reasonable under the Fourth Amendment ..................................... 6
    B. Sanction of exclusion is not warranted ............................................ 7
    ii
    II. The court of appeals should not have given Villarreal
    the weight of controlling authority ................................................... 10
    Prayer for Relief ...................................................................................... 13
    Certificate of Service ............................................................................... 13
    Certificate of Compliance ........................................................................ 13
    Appendix: Opinion of the Court of Appeals
    iii
    Index of Authorities
    Cases
    Cole v. State, No. PD-0077-15
    (granted Apr. 22, 2015) ................................................................... 7,9,10
    Davis v. United States, 
    131 S. Ct. 2419
     (2011)....................................................................................................... 8
    Holidy v. State, No. PD-0622-14
    (granted Aug. 20, 2014) .......................................................................... 6
    Illinois v. Krull, 
    480 U.S. 340
      (1987)....................................................................................................... 7
    Karenev v. State, 
    281 S.W.3d 428
     (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) ............................................................................ 7
    Lloyd v. State, 
    453 S.W.3d 544
     (Tex. App.—Dallas 2014, pet. ref ’d) .................................................. 5,10
    Missouri v. McNeely, 
    133 S. Ct. 1552
     (2013)................................................................................................... 1, 3
    Reeder v. State, No. 0601-14
    (granted Aug. 20, 2014) .......................................................................... 6
    State v. Mayorga, 
    876 S.W.2d 176
     (Tex. App.—Dallas 1994), aff'd, 
    901 S.W.2d 943
    .................................... 9
    State v. Mayorga, 
    901 S.W.2d 943
     (Tex. Crim. App. 1995) ............................................................................ 9
    State v. Mazuca, 
    375 S.W.3d 294
     (Tex. Crim. App. 2012) ............................................................................ 9
    State v. Sandlin, No. 05-14-00072-CR, 
    2015 WL 294660
      (Tex. App.—Dallas Jan. 22, 2015
    (not designated for publication) ........................................................ 1, 4, 5
    iv
    State v. Smith, No. PD-1615-14
    (granted Feb. 11, 2015) ........................................................................... 7
    State v. Villarreal, PD-0306-14, 
    2014 WL 6734178
     (Tex. Crim. App. Nov. 26, 2014), reh’g granted (Feb. 25, 2015)......... 4, 5
    Wong Sun v. United States, 
    371 U.S. 471
     (1963)....................................................................................................... 9
    Yeager v. State, 
    727 S.W.2d 280
     (Tex. Crim. App. 1987) .................................................................... 10,11
    Statutes, Codes, and Rules
    Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.23 ............................................................... 8
    Tex. Penal Code § 49.045............................................................................... 1, 3
    Tex. Transp. Code § 724.012(b) ..................................................... 2,3,5,6,7
    Tex. R. App. P. 66.3(b) ............................................................................... 6
    Tex. R. App. P. 66.3(f).............................................................................. 10
    Tex. R. App. P. 68.2(a) ............................................................................... 1
    v
    To the Honorable Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas:
    Statement Regarding Oral Argument
    The State does not request argument.
    Statement of the Case
    Lawrence Sandlin was indicted for DWI with a child passenger.
    CR 7; Tex. Penal Code § 49.045. Sandlin filed a motion to suppress the
    results of his blood test based on Missouri v. McNeely, 
    133 S. Ct. 1552
    (2013). CR 17-19. The trial court granted the motion, and the State
    appealed. CR 20.
    Statement of Procedural History
    The court of appeals handed down its opinion on January 22,
    2015. State v. Sandlin, No. 05-14-00072-CR, 
    2015 WL 294660
    (Tex.
    App.—Dallas Jan. 22, 2015) (not designated for publication). The State
    timely filed a motion for rehearing on February 6, 2015, which was
    denied July 14, 2015. This petition is thus timely filed on or before
    August 13, 2015. Tex. R. App. P. 68.2(a).
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    Grounds for Review
    Issue One
    An officer’s reliance on the mandatory blood-
    draw provision for DWIs with a child passenger
    (Transp. Code § 724.012(b)(2)) was reasonable
    under the Fourth Amendment and did not
    require suppression of the blood-test results.
    (RR 5-25)
    Issue Two
    Given that a motion for rehearing was still
    pending in State v. Villarreal and thus
    Villarreal did not have the status of law, the
    court of appeals erred in treating Villarreal as
    dictating the result in the instant case.
    The Facts and Issues Argued Below
    I. The offense
    In June 2012—nine months before the Supreme Court’s April
    2013 decision in Missouri v. McNeely—Officer Roger Smith pulled
    Lawrence Sandlin over for making an unsafe lane change that forced
    the police officer out of his lane. RR 5-8. Sandlin, who was driving a
    Mini Cooper, had his 8-year-old daughter with him in the car and
    admitted he had been drinking alcohol. RR 9, 11. Based on Sandlin’s
    performance on the standard battery of field sobriety tests, Officer
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    Smith arrested Sandlin for DWI with a child passenger under Penal
    Code § 49.045. RR 10-11.
    Sandlin refused the officer’s request to voluntarily provide a
    breath or blood specimen. RR 12. Relying solely on Transportation Code
    § 724.012(b)(2), which mandates a blood draw when a suspect is
    arrested for DWI with a child passenger, Officer Smith directed a nurse
    to take a sample of Sandlin’s blood. RR 13, 15, 17.
    II. The trial court
    Sandlin moved to suppress his blood-test results under Missouri v.
    McNeely, 
    133 S. Ct. 1552
    (2013). CR 17-19. At the suppression hearing,
    Sandlin’s   counsel   admitted   that   Officer   Smith’s   actions   were
    “completely understandable.” RR 18. After all, the officer was relying on
    a statute which, at the time, had not yet “come into question.” RR 15,
    18. Nevertheless, Sandlin argued that McNeely required suppression of
    warrantless blood draws conducted under the statute. RR 18-19. The
    prosecutor took the opposite position, arguing that Texas’s implied
    consent law in Transportation Code chapter 724 authorized the blood
    draw despite McNeely. RR 19-20. The trial judge sided with Sandlin and
    explained that he was “troubled” by the argument that implied consent
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    could override a suspect’s express refusal. RR 21, 23-25. The State
    appealed.
    III. The court of appeals
    In its brief to the Fifth District Court of Appeals in Dallas, the
    State argued that Sandlin’s warrantless blood draw was justified under
    the Fourth Amendment because Sandlin, like any other driver, had
    given his implicit but irrevocable consent under a statutory framework
    that legitimately aimed to protect the public from the carnage caused by
    drunk drivers.
    While the instant case was still pending in the Dallas court, this
    Court issued its original opinion in Villarreal. State v. Villarreal, PD-
    0306-14, 
    2014 WL 6734178
    , at *11 (Tex. Crim. App. Nov. 26, 2014),
    reh’g granted (Feb. 25, 2015). Although Villarreal was not yet final and
    a motion for rehearing had been filed in Villarreal,1 the Fifth Court of
    Appeals issued its opinion in the instant case, relying on Villarreal to
    affirm the suppression of the blood results. Sandlin, 
    2015 WL 294660
    .
    The Dallas court quoted Villarreal at length in disposing of the State’s
    complaint on appeal:
    The State filed a motion for rehearing in Villarreal in December 2014.
    1
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    In this case, the State argues that Sandlin gave implied
    consent to provide a breath or blood specimen which was
    irrevocable   under     section   724.012(b)     of   Texas
    Transportation Code because he had a child passenger in
    the vehicle with him. In Villarreal, however, the Texas
    Court of Criminal Appeals specifically rejected this
    argument:
    To the extent the State suggests that the
    implied-consent and mandatory-blood-draw
    provisions in the Transportation Code
    categorically extinguish a DWI suspect’s right
    to withdraw consent when some aggravating
    circumstance is present, that suggestion
    cannot be squared with the requirement that,
    to be valid for Fourth Amendment purposes,
    consent must be freely and voluntarily given
    based on the totality of the circumstances, and
    must not have been revoked or withdrawn at
    the time of the search. In other words, implied
    consent that has been withdrawn or revoked
    by a suspect cannot serve as a substitute for
    the free and voluntary consent that the Fourth
    Amendment requires.
    
    Id. at *11
    (internal citations omitted); Lloyd v. State, No.
    05–13–01004–CV, 
    2014 WL 7249747
    , at *3 (Tex.App.—
    Dallas Dec. 22, 2014, no pet. h.). The record in this
    instance clearly demonstrates that the appellee refused
    consent. Accordingly, we reject this argument.
    Sandlin, 
    2015 WL 294660
    , at *2.
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    Argument
    I. The blood results should not have been suppressed
    This Court should grant review because the court of appeals
    decided an important question of state and federal law that is unsettled
    and should be settled by this Court. See Tex. R. App. P. 66.3(b). That
    question is whether warrantless blood draws conducted under the
    conditions listed in § 724.012 are reasonable under the Fourth
    Amendment. The other outstanding question, addressed in subsection B
    below, is whether the federal and state exclusionary rules require
    suppression when the warrantless blood draw occurred before McNeely.
    A. Reasonable under the Fourth Amendment
    Like numerous other cases, the issue in this case revolves around
    whether a blood draw conducted pursuant to the implied consent and
    mandatory blood draw provisions of Chapter 724 of the Transportation
    Code is reasonable under the Fourth Amendment. Because this Court
    has already granted review to decide this issue in numerous other
    pending cases, review is also warranted in the instant case. See, e.g.,
    Villarreal, No. PD-0306-14; Holidy v. State, No. PD-0622-14 (granted
    Aug. 20, 2014); Reeder v. State, No. 0601-14 (granted Aug. 20, 2014);
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    State v. Smith, No. PD-1615-14 (granted Feb. 11, 2015); Cole v. State,
    No. PD-0077-15 (granted Apr. 22, 2015).
    B. Sanction of exclusion is not warranted
    If an officer believed a person was driving a child around while
    intoxicated and declined to provide a breath or blood sample, it would
    have been objectively reasonable in June 2012 for an officer to require a
    sample without a warrant. Not only that, § 724.012(b) mandated that
    the officer do so. Tex. Transp. Code § 724.012(b). As Sandlin’s counsel
    put it in this case, § 724.012(b) had not “come into question,” and it was
    presumptively constitutional. RR 15; Karenev v. State, 
    281 S.W.3d 428
    ,
    434 (Tex. Crim. App. 2009) (“Statutes are presumed to be constitutional
    until it is determined otherwise. The State and the trial court should
    not be required to anticipate that a statute may later be held to be
    unconstitutional.”).
    If anything, it is the legislature and not the officer who is to blame
    if statutory blood draws turn out to be unconstitutional. Under such
    circumstances, the sanction of excluding the blood evidence will not
    further the aim of an exclusionary rule—deterring unlawful police
    conduct. Illinois v. Krull, 
    480 U.S. 340
    , 347 (1987). At a high price to
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    society, it would penalize officers without bringing about any greater
    compliance with the laws on the books. See 
    id. Still more,
    as the United
    States Supreme Court recognized in Davis v. United States, it will have
    a counter effect. Penalizing the blameless officer who follows the
    mandate of the current law will only discourage conscientious officers
    from doing their duty, where a controlling law specifically authorizes a
    particular police practice. Davis v. United States, 
    131 S. Ct. 2419
    , 2429
    (2011).
    Because    Texas   officers   face   these   same   incentives   and
    disincentives, this Court should find that the Texas Exclusionary Rule,
    like its federal counterpart, does not mechanistically require the harsh
    sanction of exclusion in this circumstance. The statutory “good-faith”
    exception to Texas’s Exclusionary Rule, Code of Criminal Procedure
    Article 38.23(b), which exempts an officer’s good-faith reliance on a
    warrant, is inapplicable here because no warrant was ever involved.
    But other doctrines do apply. In order for evidence to be excluded under
    Texas law, for example, the evidence must be “obtained in violation” of
    a constitutional provision or statute. Tex. Code Crim. Proc. art. 38.23.
    And evidence has been “obtained in violation” when that evidence is
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    arrived at by exploiting an illegality. State v. Mayorga, 
    901 S.W.2d 943
    ,
    946 (Tex. Crim. App. 1995); see also Wong Sun v. United States, 
    371 U.S. 471
    , 487-88 (1963); State v. Mazuca, 
    375 S.W.3d 294
    , 300 (Tex.
    Crim. App. 2012). The timing of events matters. When the crime has
    not yet occurred (as in Mayorga) or the police conduct not yet illegal, the
    evidence is not “within the field of exploitation.” See 
    Mayorga, 901 S.W.2d at 946
    (quoting lower court decision in State v. Mayorga, 
    876 S.W.2d 176
    , 178 (Tex. App.—Dallas 1994)). Where no court had yet held
    the officer’s conduct illegal, and where a presumptively constitutional
    statute appeared to mandate the actions he undertook here, Officer
    Smith can hardly be said to have exploited an illegality.
    Because it is important to Texas law whether the sanction of
    exclusion can be justified in these circumstances and because this Court
    has already granted review of this issue in Cole v. State, No. PD-0077-
    15, this Court should grant review in the instant case. This issue was
    implicitly passed on by the trial court; even defense counsel
    acknowledged that the officer’s actions were “understandable” at the
    time he acted. RR 18. Consequently, this Court should remand to the
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    court of appeals to decide in the first instance whether the Texas
    Exclusionary Rule requires suppression.
    Alternatively, this Court should find for the reasons set out in the
    State Prosecuting Attorney’s brief in Cole that suppression is not
    warranted. See State Prosecuting Attorney’s Brief on the Merits, Cole v.
    State, No. PD-0077-15 (filed June 4, 2015).
    II. The court of appeals should not have given Villarreal the
    weight of controlling authority
    This Court should also grant review because the court of appeals’s
    departure from the usual course of judicial proceedings warrants
    intervention by this Court. See Tex. R. App. P. 66.3(f). Instead of
    conducting its own analysis of the issue that the State presented in this
    appeal, the court of appeals relied solely2 on a non-final opinion by this
    Court in Villarreal.
    In Yeager v. State, another court of appeals also relied on an
    opinion of this Court that was still pending on rehearing. Yeager v.
    Although the court’s decision also cites its published opinion in Lloyd v. State, that
    2
    decision relies exclusively on Villarreal as well. Lloyd v. State, 
    453 S.W.3d 544
    , 547
    (Tex. App.—Dallas 2014, pet. ref ’d) (“With respect to the first argument, the court
    of criminal appeals already considered and rejected this precise argument [in
    Villarreal].”).
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    State, 
    727 S.W.2d 280
    , 281 n.1 (Tex. Crim. App. 1987). In that instance,
    the Court of Criminal Appeals advised:
    Parties appearing before this Court and the Courts of
    Appeals should proceed with caution when relying on non-
    final opinions. An opinion which is not final is not a part
    of the jurisprudence of this State.
    
    Yeager, 727 S.W.2d at 281
    n.1. Here, the court of appeals relied on
    Villarreal to the exclusion of any other analysis.
    This is not to say that a court of appeals cannot find a non-final
    opinion of this Court to be persuasive authority. Of course it may do so.
    After all, such a decision had the support of a majority of the judges of
    this Court for at least one period of time, and indeed, in many cases, an
    opinion in which a motion for rehearing is pending may ultimately
    carry the weight of authority when the opinion becomes final.
    But the court of appeals in the instant case did not merely agree
    with the reasoning in Villarreal. Instead, the court of appeals rejected
    the State’s arguments because, in the court’s view, Villarreal required
    that result. As the court of appeals explained in its opinion, Villarreal
    had “specifically rejected” the State’s argument and “[a]ccordingly,” the
    court of appeals rejected it. From the court of appeals’s treatment of
    Villarreal, there appeared no other alternative.
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    Because the court of appeals ceded its authority to decide the
    instant appeal based on an opinion of this Court that lacks the force of
    law and thus could not dictate the result, this Court should intervene
    and grant review.
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    Prayer for Relief
    Wherefore, the State of Texas prays that this Court will grant the
    petition and ultimately reverse the decision of the court of appeals.
    Respectfully submitted,
    Greg Willis
    District Attorney
    Collin County, Texas
    John R. Rolater, Jr.
    Chief of the Appellate Division
    /s/ Emily Johnson-Liu
    Emily Johnson-Liu
    Assistant District Attorney
    2100 Bloomdale Rd., Suite 200
    State Bar No. 24032600
    ejohnson-liu@co.collin.tx.us
    (972) 548-4323
    FAX (214) 491-4860
    Certificate of Service
    The State has e-served counsel for Lawrence Sandlin, the
    Honorable Jerry Kelly, through the eFileTexas.gov filing system and
    sent a copy to The Honorable Lisa McMinn, State Prosecuting Attorney,
    on this, the 4th day of August 2015.
    /s/ Emily Johnson-Liu
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    Certificate of Compliance
    This petition for discretionary review complies with the word
    limitations in Texas Rule of Appellate Procedure 9.4(i)(2). In reliance on
    the word count of the computer program used to prepare this petition,
    the undersigned attorney certifies that this document contains 2,046
    words, exclusive of the sections exempted by Rule 9.4(i)(1).
    /s/ Emily Johnson-Liu
    Assistant District Attorney
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    APPENDIX
    Opinion of the Court of Appeals,
    Jan. 22, 2015
    AFFIRMED; and Opinion Filed January 22, 2015.
    S   In The
    Court of Appeals
    Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
    No. 05-14-00072-CR
    THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellant
    V.
    LAWRENCE CLARK SANDLIN, Appellee
    On Appeal from the 416th Judicial District Court
    Collin County, Texas
    Trial Court Cause No. 416-82012-2012
    MEMORANDUM OPINION
    Before Justices Bridges, Lang, and Evans
    Opinion by Justice Evans
    The State of Texas appeals the trial court’s decision to grant appellee Lawrence Clark
    Sandlin’s motion to suppress. In a single issue, the State contends that the mandatory blood
    draw provision of Section 724.012(b) of the Texas Transportation Code is lawful because it
    authorizes irrevocable consent in narrow circumstances.        Finding no merit in the State’s
    argument, we affirm the trial court’s order granting the motion to suppress.
    BACKGROUND
    On the evening of June 30, 2012, police officer Roger Smith noticed that a white Mini
    Cooper began drifting out its lane and making unsafe lane changes. Officer Smith stopped the
    car and noticed that Sandlin, the driver, had his eight-year old daughter in the car with him.
    Sandlin admitted he had been consuming alcohol. Officer Smith conducted a breath test which
    indicated the presence of alcohol in Sandlin’s system. Officer Smith also performed the field
    sobriety tests on Sandlin which also indicated that he had been driving while intoxicated.
    Sandlin was then arrested for driving while intoxicated with a passenger under fifteen years of
    age. After taking him to the jail, Officer Smith requested that Sandlin provide a breath and blood
    specimen and Sandlin refused. Officer Smith then informed Sandlin that pursuant to the Texas
    Transportation Code, it was mandatory that Sandlin provide a sample. See TEX. TRANSP. CODE
    ANN. § 724.012(b) (West 2011). A nurse then took a blood specimen from Sandlin at the jail.
    Sandlin was indicted for the felony offense of DWI with a child passenger. Sandlin filed
    a motion to suppress alleging that the warrantless, nonconsensual blood draw was a violation of
    his Fourth Amendment rights under the United States Constitution. The trial court granted the
    motion to suppress and the State filed this appeal. While this appeal was pending, the court of
    criminal appeals issued its opinion in State v. Villarreal, No. PD-0306-14, 
    2014 WL 6734178
    (Tex. Crim. App. Nov. 26, 2014), addressing involuntary blood draws taken under the authority
    of the Texas Transportation Code.
    ANALYSIS
    In a single issue, the State claims that the trial court erred by granting Sandlin’s motion to
    suppress.    The State argues that the blood draw was lawful because the statutory scheme
    establishes prospective, but irrevocable, consent in certain narrow circumstances. We disagree.
    We apply a bifurcated standard of review of a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress
    by giving almost total deference to the trial court’s determinations of fact and reviewing de novo
    the trial court’s application of law. State v. McLain, 
    337 S.W.3d 268
    , 271 (Tex. Crim. App.
    2011).
    The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals recently addressed whether a warrantless,
    nonconsensual testing of a DWI suspect’s blood violates the suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights.
    Villarreal, 
    2014 WL 6734178
    . In Villarreal, the suspect was stopped for a traffic violation. 
    Id. –2– at
    *1. As the suspect exhibited signs of intoxication, a DWI investigation was conducted. 
    Id. The suspect
    refused to perform standardized field sobriety tests and refused to provide a blood
    specimen. 
    Id. After the
    officer discovered that the suspect had been convicted of DWI on
    several occasions, the suspect’s blood was drawn over his objection based on section 724.012(b)
    of the Texas Transportation Code. 
    Id. at *2.
    The suspect then moved to suppress the blood test
    results and the trial court granted the motion. 
    Id. On review
    to the court of criminal appeals, the
    State argued that the court of appeals erred in holding that a warrantless blood draw conducted
    pursuant to the provisions of the transportation code violates the Fourth Amendment. 
    Id. at *6.
    The court of criminal appeals rejected the State’s contention that the implied-consent and
    mandatory blood draw provisions established a constitutionally valid basis for conducting a
    nonconsensual search in the absence of a search warrant. 
    Id. In this
    case, the State argues that Sandlin gave implied consent to provide a breath or
    blood specimen which was irrevocable under section 724.012(b) of Texas Transportation Code
    because he had a child passenger in the vehicle with him. In Villarreal, however, the Texas
    Court of Criminal Appeals specifically rejected this argument:
    To the extent the State suggests that the implied-consent and mandatory-blood-
    draw provisions in the Transportation Code categorically extinguish a DWI
    suspect’s right to withdraw consent when some aggravating circumstance is
    present, that suggestion cannot be squared with the requirement that, to be valid
    for Fourth Amendment purposes, consent must be freely and voluntarily given
    based on the totality of the circumstances, and must not have been revoked or
    withdrawn at the time of the search. In other words, implied consent that has
    been withdrawn or revoked by a suspect cannot serve as a substitute for the free
    and voluntary consent that the Fourth Amendment requires.
    
    Id. at *11
    (internal citations omitted); Lloyd v. State, No. 05-13-01004-CV, 
    2014 WL 7249747
    ,
    at *3 (Tex. App.—Dallas Dec. 22, 2014, no pet. h.).          The record in this instance clearly
    demonstrates that the appellee refused consent. Accordingly, we reject this argument.
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    CONCLUSION
    We resolve the State’s issue against it and affirm the trial court’s order granting the
    motion to suppress.
    / David Evans/
    DAVID EVANS
    JUSTICE
    Do Not Publish
    TEX. R. APP. P. 47
    140072F.U05
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    S
    Court of Appeals
    Fifth District of Texas at Dallas
    JUDGMENT
    THE STATE OF TEXAS, Appellant                        On Appeal from the 416th Judicial District
    Court, Collin County, Texas
    No. 05-14-00072-CR         V.                        Trial Court Cause No. 416-82012-2012.
    Opinion delivered by Justice Evans.
    LAWRENCE CLARK SANDLIN, Appellee                     Justices Bridges and Lang participating.
    Based on the Court’s opinion of this date, the order of the trial court granting the motion
    to suppress is AFFIRMED.
    Judgment entered this 22nd day of January, 2015.
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