Commonwealth v. Cieri

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• adequate basis for invoking privilege where witness was charged criminally in connection with the same occurrence giving, rise to charge of homicide by vehicle against defendant
• where private hospital nurse drew defendant’s blood according to routine hospital procedure, and later forwarded sample to police for blood alcohol test, nurse acted as an “instrument” or “agent” of the government
• where private hospital nurse drew defendant's blood according to routine hospital procedure, and later forwarded sample to police for blood alcohol test, nurse acted as an \instrument\ or \agent\ of the government
• where private hospital nurse withdrew defendant's blood according to routine hospital procedure, and later forwarded sample to police for blood alcohol test, nurse acted as an \instrument\ or \agent\ of the government
• where private hospital nurse withdrew defendant’s blood according to routine hospital procedure, and later forwarded sample to police for blood alcohol test, nurse acted as an “instrument” or “agent” of the government
• at the time police received the sample of appellant's blood, they had probable cause to suspect driving under the influence; both the officer and the nurse had smelled alcohol on appellant’s breath

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).