If you opt out of any questioning or test when you get pulled over and request a lawyer do they have to grant you that request? And when the get a warrant for your blood can they also deni you the right to have a lawyer present?
You may request an attorney at any time, but in the field an officer will take the request for counsel as a refusal to submit to the Field Sobriety Tests, and will proceed accordingly. If a magistrate has approved the request for a blood draw, the sample will be taken; there is no right to counsel at that time.
lying in court
My friend falsified (a.k.a. she lied) information in court in order to obtain a protective order against her husband and now she is finally realizing that what she did was wrong. She wants to recant her statement but she is afraid that she will get into trouble and possibly even lose her children if the court knows that she was lying. What are the consequences of lying in court? And what kind of trouble will she get in if she tells them that truth? Also who does she need to contact to tell them that she was lying?
