{"id":38627,"date":"2019-07-18T10:40:27","date_gmt":"2019-07-18T15:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38627"},"modified":"2019-07-19T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:28:19","slug":"pa-refusal-to-submit-to-a-test-is-admissible-under-birchfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38627","title":{"rendered":"PA: Refusal to submit to a test is admissible under <em>Birchfield<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[W]e conclude the \u2018evidentiary consequence\u2019 provided by Section 1547(e) for refusing to submit to a warrantless blood test \u2014 the admission of that refusal at a subsequent trial for DUI \u2014 remains constitutionally permissible post-Birchfield. We therefore affirm the order of the Superior Court.\u201d  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacourts.us\/assets\/opinions\/Supreme\/out\/J-103-2018mo%20-%2010406694468861660.pdf?cb=1\">Commonwealth v. Bell<\/a>, 2019 Pa. LEXIS 3842 (July 17, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>The stop was concededly valid. \u201c[T]he record reflects that the canine sniff did not, in fact, measurably prolong the traffic stop but instead was conducted within the time reasonably required to complete the stop&#8217;s mission.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov\/judiciary\/opinions\/pdf\/07161901tac.pdf\">Tinker v. State<\/a>, 2019 Ind. App. LEXIS 321 (July 16, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c[W]e conclude the \u2018evidentiary consequence\u2019 provided by Section 1547(e) for refusing to submit to a warrantless blood test \u2014 the admission of that refusal at a subsequent trial for DUI \u2014 remains constitutionally permissible post-Birchfield. We therefore affirm the order &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38627\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-testing","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38631,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38627\/revisions\/38631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}