The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether, due to the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark 2016 ruling in Birchfield v. North Dakota, blood alcohol test results should have been suppressed in the case of a fatal accident caused by an alleged drunken driver.

In Birchfield, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Fourth Amendment does not permit warrantless blood tests in drunken driving arrests and outlawed criminal penalties for refusing to submit to blood draws.

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