State v. Brown

LARSON, Justice.

Defendant Brown was charged with involuntary manslaughter under Iowa Code section 707.5(1) which provides punishment for one who “unintentionally causes the death of another person by the commission of a public offense ...,” in this case OM-VUI. The focus of this appeal is Brown’s blood-alcohol test which supports the OM-VUI charge. We affirm the district court’s suppression of the test results.

On October 30,1981, Brown was the driver of a car involved in an accident. One of his passengers died of injuries sustained. At the hospital, the investigating officer, knowing of the…