Commonwealth v. Hower

How courts have described this case

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

• upholding imposition of prosecution expenditure to retain surveyor and physicist to testify as automobile accident reconstruction experts in prosecution of defendant charged with driving while intoxicated and involuntary manslaughter
• “We acknowledge that the possibility that a convicted defendant may be required to pay the costs of prosecution may impose some burden on ... whether to go to trial.... Nevertheless, not every burden imposed by the state on a defendant’s right to trial is constitutionally prohibited.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).