— Defendant has petitioned for pretrial relief, seeking suppression of the results of a chemical test of his blood for ingestion of drugs.
The Pennsylvania State Police arrested defendant following his involvement in a motor vehicle accident when the officer found defendant in his vehicle in a semi-conscious state and incoherent to some degree. Suspecting operation while under the influence of alcohol, the officers transported defendant to the police barracks, and with the consent of defendant performed an intoxflyzer examination which showed no alcohol in defendant’s system. Thus, suspected of possible use of drugs, defendant was transported to the Titusville Hospital where he was subjected to. a blood extraction which was examined by Dr. Nathan Scanzillo, Ph.D., director of Clinical Pathology Institute in Erie, Pennsylvania. At the hearing Dr. Scanzillo testified that
Section 1547, under the General Rule, deems any operator in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to have given consent to submit to one or more chemical tests of breath, blood or urine for the purpose of determining the alcohol content of the blood or the presence of a. controlled substance if there is reasonable grounds by a police officer to suspect the person has been driving, etc., a motor vehicle. Section 1547(c)(2) provides:
“Chemical tests of blood or urine shall be performed by a clinical laboratory licensed and approved by the Department of Health for this purpose, using procedures and equipment prescribed by the Department of Health. For purposes of blood and urine testing, a qualified person means an*456 individual who is authorized to perform these chemical tests under the Act of September 26, 1951 (P.L. 1539, no. 389), known as the Clinical Laboratory Act.”
Dr. Scanzillo stated he was qualified to perform the tests under the Clinical Laboratory Act, but there has been no laboratory established and approved by. the Department of Health as the act provides. He did state, notwithstanding, he has testified in other courts as to his opinion of controlled substances in an operator’s blood.
As defendant argues, Dr. Scanzillo’s testimony is consistent with the. notice published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin, vblume 19, no. 12, March 25, 1989, which therein the Secretary of the Department of Health states, “The Bureau of Laboratories will, at a later date, establish a list of laboratories approved to conduct-quantitative drug determinations in blood and publish it semi-annually in the Pennsylvania Bulletin.”
Defendant argues that notwithstanding a controlled substance appearing in the urine of a defendant, under the testimony of Dr. Scanzillo, it is not possible to give a quantitative measure of the amount of controlled substance using only the urine test. In addition, because the laboratory performing the test was not approved, the results of the blood testing showing controlled substance should be suppressed.
We are constrained to agree. The Motor Vehicle Code is statutory in origin and in degradation of the common law, and we are thus therefore bound by its mandates. It is also apparent the Department of Health has taken exclusive authority to license laboratories using standards set by the department for this purpose. Thus, it is the duty of the commonwealth, before utilizing the results of the testing for use of controlled substance, to prove beyond a
The commonwealth does not disagree with defendant’s argument in this regard but does argue it does not follow Dr. Scanzillo is barred from testifying as to his findings of the qualitative
Next, defendant at his suppression hearing elected to testify and, voluntarily, on his case-in-chief stated he had in fact been using drugs of some
“Appellant chose to testify during the trial, and the prosecution was entitled to bring to the jury’s attention inconsistencies between the appellant’s trial testimony and his suppression hearing testimony. This, of course, is only permissible where no evidence was suppressed. Where evidence has been suppressed, no reference to the suppression hearing is permissible because such a reference would reveal to the jury or permit the jury to speculate about the existence of inculpatory evidence withheld from the jury by thé suppression order. If the defendant does not testify at trial, there is, of course, no proper occasion to refer to his testimony at the suppression hearing.”
Hence, we cannot at this point determine defendant’s incriminating statements must be suppressed as that decision must await the trial events. It is apparent, however, if defendant does not elect to testify, the commonwealth may not use the suppression admissions in the commonwealth’s case at time of trial.
For these reasons we enter the following
ORDER
And now, September 19, 1989, the motion to suppress the results of the blood/urine chemical
The inculpatory testimony of defendant is suppressed, subject to the commonwealth’s use thereof for rebuttal purposes in the event defendant elects to testify and contradicts his suppression testimony given under oath.
. A chemical analysis designed to determine the amounts or proportion of the components of a substance or mixture.
. A chemical analysis designed to identify the components of a substance or mixture.
