Opinion ID: 107262
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Heading: the due process clause claim.

Text: Breithaupt was also a case in which police officers caused blood to be withdrawn from the driver of an automobile involved in an accident, and in which there was ample justification for the officer's conclusion that the driver was under the influence of alcohol. There, as here, the extraction was made by a physician in a simple, medically acceptable manner in a hospital environment. There, however, the driver was unconscious at the time the blood was withdrawn and hence had no opportunity to object to the procedure. We affirmed the conviction there resulting from the use of the test in evidence, holding that under such circumstances the withdrawal did not offend that `sense of justice' of which we spoke in Rochin v. California, 342 U. S. 165. 352 U. S., at 435. Breithaupt thus requires the rejection of petitioner's due process argument, and nothing in the circumstances of this case [4] or in supervening events persuades us that this aspect of Breithaupt should be overruled.