PEOPLE v. FORD

Docket No. H008583.

4 Cal.App.4th 32 (1992)

5 Cal. Rptr.2d 189

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. GARNETT TAYLOR FORD, Defendant and Appellant.

Court of Appeals of California, Sixth District.

February 28, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Heisler, Stewart & Daniels, William B. Daniels and Julie E. Moore for Defendant and Appellant.

Dean D. Flippo, District Attorney, and Marie Aronson, Deputy District Attorney, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

Daniel E. Lungren, Attorney General, George Williamson, Chief Assistant Attorney General, John H. Sugiyama, Assistant Attorney General, Morris Beatus and Gerald A. Engler, Deputy Attorneys General, as Amici Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.


OPINION

ELIA, J.

In March of 1990, an officer of the Monterey Police Department arrested appellant for driving under the influence of alcohol. At the police station, the officer requested that a licensed clinical technologist withdraw a blood sample from appellant. Without appellant's consent, but without force, the technologist took the sample using a standard procedure and materials he obtained from a local hospital.

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