52 Pa. D. & C.2d 260 - Commonwealth v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
July 1977
most recently cited
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Schmerber v. State of California · Breithaupt v. Abram
Most-quoted passages
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“The statute was not meant to create problems for the police but rather to design a scientific method of determining probable innocence or guilt. Yet, at the same time, the legislature did not want drivers subjected to inhuman treatment and slipshod methods of testing. The protections afforded by the statute are concerned with the manner in which the test is conducted and not with whether it can be conducted at all.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In addition, to require a warrant before the blood or breath was sampled would render this statute nugatory. The body constantly expels the alcohol which drinking puts into the blood. If an officer needed to find a district justice, go to his home or office, prepare an affidavit and wait for the issuance of the warrant, the operator in many instances would be completely sober before the sample was taken.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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