29 Va. App. 339 - Woolridge v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
12
cited by 12 later decisions
1
states following
September 2018
most recently cited
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 7 Va. App. 269 - Cantrell v. Commonwealth · 5 Va. App. 468 - Harward v. Commonwealth · Hatcher v. Commonwealth · Brooks v. City of Newport News · Saunders v. Reynolds
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“Once the certificate is admitted, the statute makes it evidence of the alcoholic content of the blood to be considered with all other evidence in the case. But the statute does not make the certificate conclusive evidence of the statutory regularity of the test. With respect to regularity of the test, the statute affords the defendant the right to prove noncompliance with test procedures---- Even had [the defendant] ... proved some prejudicial irregularity in test procedures, such proof would not have defeated admissibility of the certificate but only affected its weight as evidence of the alcoholic content of his blood.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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