Commonwealth v. Connolly

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “[w]e must resolve in favor of criminal defendants any reasonable doubt as to the statute’s meaning”
• person does not need to be drunk to be driving while under influence of liquor
• court resolves doubts as to statute's meaning in favor of criminal defendant
• court resolves doubts as to statute’s meaning in favor of criminal defendant
• burden is on the Commonwealth to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that “defendant’s consumption of [a scheduled drug] diminished the defendant’s ability to operate a motor vehicle safely”
• person need not be “drunk” to be convicted of driving under the influence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).