Commonwealth v. Romesburg

WIEAND, Judge:

The major issue raised in this direct appeal from a judgment of sentence imposed for driving while under the influence of alcohol is whether the Commonwealth’s use of the results of field sobriety tests violated the guarantee against self-incrimination contained in Article I, Section 9 of the Pennsylvania Constitution. Appellant also challenges (1) the relevance of the results of a blood test taken two hours after arrest and (2) the Commonwealth’s right to use the test results where the sample of his blood had been destroyed and was not available for independent testing. We…