Commonwealth v. Simon

WIEAND, Judge:

This is an appeal by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from an order of the trial court which suppressed the results of a blood alcohol test performed on Douglas Simon, Jr. following an automobile accident. The Commonwealth has certified that the court’s suppression of this evidence substantially handicaps its prosecution of Simon for driving while under the influence of alcohol. 1

At or about 3:10 a.m. on the morning of November 17, 1993, Sergeant Richard Dechant of the Middletown Township Police Department arrived at the scene of an automobile accident in Langhorne, Bucks…