State v. Dias

Held that the Georgia Supreme Court had previously only ruled that the state constitution’s right against self-incrimination precluded admission of a suspect’s right to consent to a breath test and had never ruled that drawing someone’s blood implicated the right against compelled self-incrimination. The court clarified that it did not express an opinion on that novel question at present. The concurrence cautioned that conistent with caselaw, Georgia courts should not reach a constitutional challenge to a state statute if there’s an alternative ground on which to decide the case.