Legal Opinion
Opinion of the Justices
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided April 26, 1989No. 89-061PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*585Opinion of
Chief Justice Brock and Justice Batchelder
Under the present statute, RSA 265:86 (Supp. 1988), when the police extract a sample of blood from a person arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol for the purpose of performing a chemical test to determine blood alcohol content, the police must extract a sufficient quantity of blood to provide a second sample for the person’s independent analysis. By virtue of our decision in State v. Cornelius, 122 N.H. 925, 452 A.2d 464 (1982), the State must preserve a second sample of breath when a breath test is administered to determine…
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