State v. Doughty

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

After a jury trial in the Superior Court (York County; Cole, J.), Patricia Doughty was convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor (OUI), 29 M.R.S.A. § 1312-B (Pamph.1988). Doughty raises three issues on appeal, contending: 1) that the presiding justice erroneously admitted into evidence a privileged physician-patient communication; 2) that evidence of her refusal to submit to a blood-alcohol test, throughout the time she was in police custody, was rendered inadmissible by the subsequent hospital analysis of her blood-alcohol…