A U.S. Supreme Court ruling that taking a blood sample from a suspected drunken driver is a search generally requiring a warrant will not be applied retroactively in New Jersey.

A three-judge appellate panel on Friday overturned a trial judge’s suppression of blood-sample evidence taken of a suspected drunken driver in 2010, finding that “where the police acted in reliance on established legal precedent, suppressing evidence would not serve the purpose of the exclusionary rule to deter lawless police conduct.”