Salter v. SCDMV

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CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING
EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA
In The Court of Appeals

Jennifer K. Salter, Appellant,

v.

South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles and
Conway Police Department, of whom the South Carolina
Department of Motor Vehicles is the Respondent.

Appellate Case No. 2014-001025

Appeal From The Administrative Law Court
Deborah Brooks Durden, Administrative Law Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2015-UP-161
Submitted January 1, 2015 – Filed March 18, 2015

AFFIRMED

Michael Joseph O'Sullivan, of the Law Office of Michael
J. O'Sullivan, of Conway, for Appellant.

Frank L. Valenta, Jr., Linda Annette Grice, and Philip S.
Porter, all of the South Carolina Department of Motor
Vehicles, of Blythewood, for Respondent.
PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following
authorities: S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-2950(A) (Supp. 2014) (stating "[a] person
who drives a motor vehicle in this State is considered to have given consent
to chemical tests of the person's breath, blood, or urine for the purpose of
determining the presence of alcohol, drugs, or the combination of alcohol and
drugs, if arrested for an offense arising out of acts alleged to have been
committed while the person was driving a motor vehicle while under the
influence of alcohol, drugs, or a combination of alcohol and drugs"); S.C.
Code Ann. § 56-5-2950(B)(1) (Supp. 2014) ("No tests may be administered or
samples obtained unless, upon activation of the video recording equipment and
prior to the commencement of the testing procedure, the person has been given a
written copy of and verbally informed that . . . the person does not have to take the
test or give the samples, but that the person's privilege to drive must be suspended
or denied for at least six months . . . if the person refuses to submit to the
test . . . ."); S.C. Code Ann. § 56-5-2950(J) (Supp. 2014) ("The failure to follow
policies, procedures, and regulations [promulgated by the South Carolina Law
Enforcement Division], or the provisions of [section 56-5-2950], shall result in the
exclusion from evidence of any test results, if the trial judge or hearing officer
finds that this failure materially affected the accuracy or reliability of the test
results or the fairness of the testing procedure . . . ."); Carroll v. S.C. Dep't of Pub.
Safety, 388 S.C. 39, 43-44, 693 S.E.2d 430, 433 (Ct. App. 2010) (recognizing the
supreme court's finding in Taylor v. S.C. Dep't of Motor Vehicles, 382 S.C. 567,
677 S.E.2d 588 (2009), that (1) no prejudice resulted from the lack of written
notice when the licensee was verbally advised of his implied consent rights
pursuant to section 56-5-2950(B); (2) "nothing in the implied consent statute
mandated re-issuance of a license for lack of procedural compliance with the
statute"; and (3) "the remedy provided in the implied consent statute for any lack of
procedural compliance is exclusion of the test results from evidence, and not [re-
issuance] of an individual's driver's license").

AFFIRMED.1

FEW, C.J., and THOMAS and LOCKEMY, JJ., concur.

1
We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.