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In most states you're allowed to not take the roadside breath test, despite cops lying like motherfuckers about it. It's the one at the station after you've been arrested that you have to take if you don't want to automatically get your license taken for like a year, and they always do at least two different samples between that breath test, urine, and blood. Don't do those and you're pretty much guaranteed you lose your license and get the DUI charge as well.
That is the opposite of another comment here. I guess I'll beleive neither and refuse both tests to play it safe
Ask a lawyer in your state sometime. You will very likely discover that you can and should refuse the roadside stuff.
Different states have different laws. I’m in Louisiana and refusing a breath test automatically triggers a license suspension
And you've been lied to and you're wrong. I just read your Louisiana revised statute 32.666 and you don't have to take a preliminary breath test (the little one the cops use on the side of the road).
Again, though. Not a lawyer. Speak to your lawyer in Louisiana and ask them. Other jurisdictions may have different laws.
Like I said, your license can be suspended. That means you can still refuse it.
But most importantly, read 32:661 if you want to be insufferable about it. We have an implied consent law.
And that implied consent law is for a breathalyzer test. Not the one they do on the side of the road. You don't lose your license to refuse a pbt.
Edit: Also fyi. Read 32.661 with a bit higher of a reading comp level. The chem test you can't refuse is AFTER YOUR ARREST.
Yes you do. It literally happened to my sister.
Every single dui attorney in state even states it on their site. https://attorneycarl.com/refuse-breathalyzer-louisiana/
https://trafficticketsnola.com/what-happens-if-you-refuse-a-breathalyzer-in-louisiana/
But what the fuck would you know? You already said you’re not a lawyer, you’re not from here, and aren’t going to know better from 2 minutes of googling.
I didn't Google. I looked at Louisiana law statutes.
Well you didn’t read them all cause you’re wrong.
https://answers.justia.com/question/2025/07/01/license-suspended-for-not-taking-breatha-1066646
https://www.sonjabradleylaw.com/refuse-a-breathalyzer-in-louisiana-what-happens/
https://www.bloomlegal.com/blog/dwi-refusal-in-louisiana-what-happens-if-you-refuse-the-breath-test/
https://www.ljlaw.org/blog/refusing-a-breath-test-in-louisiana/
That roadside test is NOT a breathalyzer test. It's called a "Preliminary Breath Test". Your links all advise you have to take the breathalyzer test, and that's true. But a breathalyzer test doesn't happen in the field. It's at the station attached to a very not portable machine and happens after you get arrested. Call an actual DUI lawyer yourself and ask them the difference. A PBT is not a breathalyzer test.