{"id":2035,"date":"2019-07-01T06:07:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-01T10:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:08:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:08:03","slug":"defining-consent-to-a-blood-test-in-a-massachusetts-oui-arrest-appeals-court-to-address-the-issue-in-commonwealth-v-dennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/defining-consent-to-a-blood-test-in-a-massachusetts-oui-arrest-appeals-court-to-address-the-issue-in-commonwealth-v-dennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining Consent to a Blood test in a Massachusetts OUI arrest&#8211;Appeals Court to address the issue in Commonwealth v. Dennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Appeals Court is currently considering the case of \u00a0<u>Commonwealth v. Brian Dennis\u00a0<\/u><\/p>\n<p>raise the issue of how the Commonwealth proves consent to a blood test. \u00a0Dennis is being represented by a very talented DUI lawyer Joesph Bernard out of Springfield who I have known for many years. \u00a0Lawyers for Brian Dennis, a man who was arrested for suspected drunk driving, are arguing that the use of a blood sample taken from him after his arrest is a violation of his constitutional rights and should have been suppressed from evidence at his OUI trial in Palmer District Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened in the case?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/defining-consent-to-a-blood-test-in-a-massachusetts-oui-arrest-appeals-court-to-address-the-issue-in-commonwealth-v-dennis\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Defining Consent to a Blood test in a Massachusetts OUI arrest&#8211;Appeals Court to address the issue in Commonwealth v. 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Brian Dennis\u00a0 raise the issue of how the Commonwealth proves consent to a blood test. \u00a0Dennis is being represented by a very talented DUI lawyer Joesph Bernard out of Springfield who I have known for many years. \u00a0Lawyers for Brian Dennis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dui-defenses"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Defining Consent to a Blood test in a Massachusetts OUI arrest--Appeals Court to address the issue in Commonwealth v. 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