Awad v. State

Summary

The court held that Georgia’s constitutional protection against compelled self-incrimination barred admission of Awad’s refusal to provide a urine sample when the requested collection method required him to urinate into a container at the State’s direction. Because producing the sample required an affirmative act to generate potentially incriminating evidence, the trial court properly suppressed evidence of the refusal. The court reversed the Court of Appeals and remanded for further proceedings.