CRANSTON, R.I. -- Seven months after his license was suspended for refusing a Breathlyzer test, a member of a politically prominent family is appealing.
Jarred Lynch, 26, the son of former state Democratic Party chairman William Lynch, was arrested after a crash in October 2011 with a Pawtucket police sergeant.
Lynch was charged with drunk-driving and refusing a Breathlyzer, but a special prosecutor dismissed the charges. Lynch's lawyer, former House Speaker John Harwood, asked a District Court judge to seal the criminal case.
Pawtucket police re-filed the refusal charge.Lynch was sentenced in April and his license suspended for eight months.
In an appeal hearing Thursday, Harwood said the police shouldn't have been allowed to re-filed the charges and that police reports were supposed to be destroyed.