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STATE OF OREGON, Respondent, v. MICHAEL CRAIG LANGEVIN, Appellant.

PER CURIAM

Reversed and remanded for new trial.

PER CURIAM

Defendant appeals his conviction for criminally negligent homicide, contending that the police did not have authority to draw blood from him while he was unconscious, and that, if they did have such authority, they were required to obtain a warrant before analyzing his blood several days later for alcohol content.

We hold that the police did have the authority to take a sample of defendant's blood. Former ORS 487.835(2); State v. Heintz, 286 Or. 239, 594 P.2d 385 (1979); State v. Calderon, 67 Or. App. 169, 678 P.2d 1245, rev den 297 Or. 272 (1984). That statute also authorized the testing of the blood sample. However, under the Oregon Constitution, in the absence of exigent circumstances, the officers did not have authority to test it for its alcohol content without a warrant, because they had ample time within which to obtain one. State v. Lowry, 295 Or. 337, 667 P.2d 996 (1983); State v. Westlund, 75 Or. App. 43, 705 P.2d 208, rev allowed 300 Or. 332 (1985).

ORS 487.835(2) was amended by Or Laws 1985, ch 16, § 299, and, as amended, codified as ORS 813.140.

Reversed and remanded for a new trial.

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STATE v. LANGEVIN
(Mar 26, 1986)