Commonwealth v. Murdock

Opinion by

Judge MacPhail,

The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety (DOT) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Butler County which sustained the appeal of Glenn E. Murdock (Appellee) from the suspension of his motor vehicle license. We reverse.

Appellees license was suspended for his refusal to submit to a blood test pursuant to Section 1547(b) of the Vehicle Code, as amended, 75 Pa. C. S. §1547(b). At the hearing before the trial court, Appellee argued that even though he had refused to take the test, he had substantially complied with the intent of the statute in…