On April 25, 1966 Armando Schmerber argued his arrest in the Supreme Court case, Schmerber v. California. After being in a car crash the officers took him to the hospital. While he was there getting his injuries checked and looked at, the officers made the doctors take a blood alcohol test. When they took this test they found that he had been drinking and driving. Because of this, they then arrested Schmerber and used this evidence against him in court. Schmerbers argument was that he did not agree to the test and this violated his Fifth Amendment. Before this case got to the Supreme court, there were earlier trials. The Los Angeles Municipal Court found Armando Schmerber guilty of drinking and driving. The plaintiffs argument that there
