Commonwealth v. Alano

How courts have described this case

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• stating that police had a statutory duty to inform accused of the right to a test, but no statutory duty to tell accused how to obtain a test once one was requested
• stating that police had a statutory duty to inform accused of the 12 right to a test, but no statutory duty to tell accused how to obtain a test once one was 13 requested
• noting cases from other jurisdictions holding that police need not drive defendant to hospital
• defendant must prove by clear and convincing evidence that the conduct of the police was unreasonable in order to establish a due process violation
• police may not hamper reasonable opportunity to secure test, but need not assist beyond allowing telephone calls to secure physician
• \reasonable opportunity\ varies according to circumstances, suggesting that unusual factors may require different actions by police

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).