STATE v. LAUGHRIDGE

No. 87-1484.

437 N.W.2d 570 (1989)

STATE of Iowa, Appellee, v. Gerald W. LAUGHRIDGE, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

March 22, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lowell H. Forte, Cedar Rapids, and Jerry Zimmerman, Iowa City, for appellant.

Thomas J. Miller, Atty. Gen., Charles J. Krogmeier, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and Mark Hunacek, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellee.

Considered by LARSON, P.J., and CARTER, LAVORATO, SNELL and ANDREASEN, JJ.


ANDREASEN, Justice.

In this appeal, we address the admissibility in a criminal prosecution of a blood alcohol test result obtained after a licensed physician certified that the defendant was in a condition rendering him incapable of consent or refusal. We vacate the decision of the court of appeals and affirm the judgment of the district court.

I. On June 20, 1987, a deputy sheriff observed Gerald W. Laughridge traveling at seventy-two miles per hour in a...

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