Sanders v. State

• Court: Georgia Court of Appeals
• Writing for the Court: BOGGS
• Citation: Sanders v. State, 327 Ga.App. 608, 760 S.E.2d 636 (Ga. App. 2014)
• Decision Date: 18 June 2014
• Docket Number: No. A14A0142.,A14A0142.
• Parties: SANDERS v. The STATE.

327 Ga.App. 608

760 S.E.2d 636

SANDERS

v.The STATE.

No. A14A0142.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

June 18, 2014.

Ashleigh Bartkus Merchant, Marietta, for Appellant.

R. Leon Benham, Carmen D. Smith, Mandi L. Werner, for Appellee.

BOGGS, Judge.

Following a bench trial, Meredith Sanders appeals from her convictions for driving under the influence of alcohol with an unlawful blood alcohol level (per se) in violation of OCGA § 40–6–391(a)(5) and improper right turn in violation of OCGA § 40–6–120. In her sole enumeration of error on appeal, she contends that the trial court violated her “constitutional rights to due process and compulsory process” by failing to continue her case until she was able to obtain source code information for the Intoxilizer 5000 from a Kentucky witness. We disagree and affirm.

The record shows that the trial court issued a certificate of materiality to CMI, Inc., a Kentucky corporation that manufactured the Intoxilizer 5000, and ordered Sanders to present the certificate to a Kentucky court to determine if a summons would be issued requiring a CMI, Inc. representative to appear and produce evidence. It appears from the record that the Kentucky trial court rejected the certificate of materiality, and the Georgia trial court denied Sanders' request for a stay or continuance of the trial based upon the absence of a material witness.

The alleged violations of Sanders' constitutional right to due process and confrontation have already been considered by this court in recent decisions involving nearly identical facts. See Smith v. State, 325 Ga.App. 405, 410(4), 750...