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...North Dakota now," senior defenseman Mitch Olson said. "That's what we've wanted all year...
Winning their second straight Ivy Division title wasn't enough. Winning the Crimson's first ECAC championship since 1971 wasn't enough Downing CCHA champion Michigan St. in a two game NCAA quarterfinal series wasn't enough. Not while there was business to do in icy North Dakota...
Goalie Grant Blair echoed Chalmers' sentiments. "We can play with anybody," he said. "I've been to North Dakota before," the freshman added. "It's not too great. But I think we'll take care of it with two big victories...
During a crackdown on drunken drivers, South Dakota enacted a 1980 law admitting such evidence. But the state supreme court concluded that the privilege against self-incrimination is violated if a driver is not free to say no to a Breathalyzer or blood test without fearing that his refusal could be used as evidence. Writing the U.S. high court's 7-to-2 decision, Sandra Day O'Connor contended that there was no compulsion, since the driver was free to take the test. The choice, she admitted, "will not be an easy or pleasant one for a suspect...
Neville has not yet been tried and may still escape punishment because the South Dakota Supreme Court based its decision not only on the federal Constitution but also on the state's constitutional guarantee against selfincrimination. Even so, says South Dakota Attorney General Mark Meierhenry, "looking at the war on drunken drivers nationally, we won an important victory. This law does aid in prosecution." Sixteen states have "refusal-as-evidence" laws like South Dakota's. So does the District of Columbia, which reports that the law has cut by half the number of drivers who decline to take...