{"id":810,"date":"2020-07-24T10:39:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-24T14:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/?p=810"},"modified":"2022-10-04T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T17:41:25","slug":"will-covid-19-face-masks-lead-to-more-dui-arrests-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-covid-19-face-masks-lead-to-more-dui-arrests-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Covid-19 Face Masks Lead to More DUI Arrests in Michigan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With new cases of Covid-19 continuing to escalate in Michigan, on July 10, 2020, Governor Whitmer responded with Executive Order 2020-147, which indicates that \u201c[A]ny individual who leaves their home or place of residence must wear a face covering over their nose and mouth.\u201d The Order further provides that masks must be worn in any indoor public space and on all public transportation. Also, face masks are now mandatory when you are a passenger on any ride-sharing vehicle, such as Lyft or Uber, or in any private car when being used as &#8220;hired transportation.&#8221; Will this mandatory Covid-19 face mask requirement have any impact on law enforcement practices? Specifically, will a lack of a face mask by driver or a vehicle&#8217;s occupants lead to probable cause to stop a motor vehicle?<\/p>\n<p>To answer this interesting legal question, we begin by noting that the Executive Order does make a failure to comply a crime.\u00a0 Specifically, the order provides that a failure to wear a required face mask is a misdemeanor, though no jail time may be imposed for its willful violation. An open question in all this is how and even whether the police in the State of Michigan will enforce this Order?<\/p>\n<p>As it relates to the existing law governing when the police may stop a moving vehicle, the general rule is that they must have &#8220;probable cause.&#8221;\u00a0 However, there are many circumstances when the police may lawfully stop you, including and perhaps most commonly, for a violation the traffic code such as speeding. In 2014, the United States Supreme Court, in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiMkNuUyuPqAhUBBs0KHQGJAxEQFjACegQIARAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.supremecourt.gov%2Fopinions%2F13pdf%2F12-9490_3fb4.pdf&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VphHAAtO6Q5DOsVfd0YB1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Navarette<\/em><\/a> case indicated that a vehicle may be stopped based on an anonymous 911 call provided the caller provides enough information and detail to have the i<em>ndica of reliability<\/em> and therefore enough to give rise to a reasonable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baronedefensefirm.com\/blog\/will-covid-19-face-masks-lead-to-more-dui-arrests-in-michigan\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Will Covid-19 Face Masks Lead to More DUI Arrests in Michigan?\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new cases of Covid-19 continuing to escalate in Michigan, on July 10, 2020, Governor Whitmer responded with Executive Order 2020-147, which indicates that \u201c[A]ny individual who leaves their home or place of residence must wear a face covering over their nose and mouth.\u201d The Order further provides that masks must be worn in any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,23,10,8,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid-19","category-criminal-evidence","category-dui-defense","category-dui-enforcement","category-owi"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Will Covid-19 Face Masks Lead to More DUI Arrests in Michigan? 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