Mitchell v. Wisconsin (U.S. Supreme Court, June 2019)
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The Court affirmed the defendant’s conviction for a DUI after police took his blood while he was passed out, with a plurality of the Court holding that conducting a blood test on a defendant while he is passed out is permissible under the “exigent circumstance” exception to the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement.