Can the police prevent petitioner from obtaining an additional test for his blood alcohol level?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Brown v. Municipal Court, 150 Cal.Rptr. 216, 86 Cal.App.3d 357 (Cal. App. 1978):
4 As appellant points out, petitioner may, in the alternative, exploit at his trial the fact that the police prevented him from procuring an additional test of his blood alcohol level. (See Evid.Code, 413; People v. Harris, supra, 62 Cal.App.3d 859, 865, 133 Cal.Rptr. 352.)
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