Posted on 09/01/2017 7:34:22 AM PDT by BobNative
A nurse says she was assaulted and illegally arrested by a Salt Lake City police detective for following a hospital policy that does not allow blood draws from unconscious patients.
Footage from University Hospital and officer body cameras shows Detective Jeff Payne and nurse Alex Wubbels in a standoff over whether the policeman should be allowed to get a blood sample from a patient who had been injured in a July 26 collision in northern Utah that left another driver dead.
Wubbels says blood cannot be taken from an unconscious patient unless the patient is under arrest, unless there is a warrant allowing the draw or unless the patient consents. The detective acknowledges in the footage that none of those requirements is in place, but he insists that he has the authority to obtain the draw, according to the footage.
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She could be charged with destruction of evidence.
That as likely as you being accused of having a working brain.
Ah pay attention Son, “He is a victim,” YOU DO NOT KNOW THAT, he could have caused the accident,Sherlock..
False. You need to get your facts straight.
She overreacted, she RESISTED ARREST, she thought she could get away with it because she was a WOMAN..
Strawman QUIT, You give FR a bad name
What if he CAUSED THE CRASH? HMMMM
> She got emotional, she resisted ARREST. <
She sure did. She resisted a false arrest. She resisted the arbitrary powers of a police state. The founders of this nation would have been proud of her.
No it is to determine if he was under the influence and PERHAPS CAUSED THE CRASH Sheesh
You do know there is a video of the crash? The cops were chasing a pickup, the pickup swerved into the truck driver who was in the right hand lane going on the opposite direction. If the cops had probable cause they can get a warrant
Should the nurse lose her license because an out of control cop who didn't know his department's own procedures OR THE LAW?
I don't think she should, and she did the right thing refusing an illegal directive by a rogue cop.
It's one way, yes. That doesn't mean it gets turned over to law enforcement without a warrant.
Doom on em then ......multi-million lawsuit against this Payne in the ass an d his department. This is a Bad cop that should be culled from the herd from what info is available to the public and the video.
See Comment #250...
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3582364/posts?page=250#250
I am surprised that the Cop didn’t scream “STOP RESISTING.”
The Nurse may be lucky he didn’t kill her.
“She’s being arrested and is going to jail over “hospital policy”? And - she’ll likely be fired for her idiot reaction.
She’s nuts. She over stepped her duties.”
First day with your new brain?
“Perhaps if she kept her cool and didn’t resort to screaming and being dragged - perhaps she and the victim would have been better served.”
My God, you are becoming a bigger idiot by the minute.
“Pretty tough for someone to violate implied consent when they are unconscious. If he doesn’t consent he suffers a penalty. Well, he wasn’t able to make a decision. Wouldn’t it also be required to suspect the driver of a crime?”
The court decision cited by the nurse regarding implied consent is irrelevant. The other case involved neither unconscious patients nor commercial drivers. The only thing that matters is if the search is unreasonable. Would taking blood from an unconscious hospital patient be considered an unreasonable search by the court? If a person’s licensed profession requires him/her to submit to a blood test after a fatal accident, does that person have any expectation of privacy that would prohibit the police from taking a blood sample after that person is involved in a fatal accident? Maybe a court would rule it unreasonable, but I doubt it. Either way, it’s not up to a nurse to decide.
Are you a lawyer?
It is you who is not paying attention. There is dashcam video of the wreck, linked right here in this thread.
The fleeing suspect is clearly at fault. The comatose truck driver in the burn unit is not. The main story linked in this thread clearly states this as well, if you'd bothered to read the whole thing.
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