MN GOP unaware its Supreme Court nominee faces DWI, resisting arrest charges (Click here to read more)
By Scott KaufmanFriday, June 13, 2014 9:43 EDT
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GOP officials say they were unaware that their nominee for the Minnesota Supreme Court was arrested last April on suspicion of driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest.
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In April of 2013, attorney Michelle MacDonald was pulled over for speeding at 11:18 p.m. According to the police report, when officers approached the vehicle, they detected "a slight odor" of alcohol coming from it and requested McDonald exit the vehicle and perform a field sobriety test. She refused, repeatedly, insisting that she had not been drinking.
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She then told them that she was "a reserve cop," "a lawyer," and then demanded the officers allow her to walk home. After several more minutes of argument, the officers placed her under arrest, but she refused to leave her vehicle. According to the police report, she "began to physically resist the officers' attempt to remove her from the vehicle and place her under arrest."
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At the Rosemount Police Station, officers read her the state's implied consent advisory, which requires anyone arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence to submit to a blood, urine, or breath test. When asked if she understood that, she shook her head to indicate "no" and asked to speak to a lawyer.
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The officers told her that if she did not submit to the test within the allotted time - because blood-alcohol levels decrease over time, the law requires that tests be administered as close to the time of arrest as possible - they would add a charge of refusing to take the test, which they did.
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McDonald claimed that she had a blood test performed at a hospital the next morning, and that it showed no alcohol in her system.
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