State v. Gravenish

NEUMAN, Justice.

Defendant Darrell Gravenish appealed his conviction for vehicular homicide. The court of appeals reversed and remanded for new trial on the ground Gravenish’s consent to a blood test was not informed, and, therefore, should have been suppressed. On the State’s petition for further review, we vacate the court of appeals’ decision and affirm the judgment of the district court.

Shortly after 1:30 a.m. on January 3, 1992, Darrell Gravenish drove his car — without headlights — on the wrong side of a rural Iowa highway. He collided head-on with a vehicle driven by Kerri Kautman,…