Cameron v. Commonwealth

PELLEGRINI, Judge.

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court in Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety v. O’Connell, 521 Pa. 242, 555 A.2d 873 (1989), recently held that because of the confusion arising out of situations in which an arrestee receives contemporaneous recitals of Miranda warnings and the implied consent law, Section 1547 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1547, an arrestee who requests to speak with or to call an attorney or anyone else, in response to a police request to take a breathalyzer test, must be instructed not only that his license will be suspended for one year if…