State v. Schreiber

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

GARIBALDI, J.

The narrow issue in this appeal is whether the patient-physician privilege as enacted at N.J.S.A. 2A:84A-22.2 precludes the admission into evidence, at defendant’s trial for driving while under the influence of alcohol, of defendant’s blood test, which was voluntarily disclosed to the police by an emergency-room physician. That ultimate question, whether or not the doctor’s revelations violated the patient-physician privilege, depends on our answer to the penultimate question of whether defendant’s violation of the Motor Vehicles Act, more…