Commonwealth v. Ragan

How courts have described this case

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

• unlike the evidence provided by the HGN test, a suspect’s performance of psychomotor FSTs “is reflective of ordinary signs of intoxication discernible by a layperson”
• “sobriety tests... are grounded in theories which link an individual’s lack of coordination and the loss of concentration, with intoxication”
• officers could give lay testimony regarding results of field sobriety tests because, although field sobriety tests are not conducted by citizens, the test’s indicia of intoxication are “within the understanding and experience of ordinary people”
• lay witness can give an opinion as to whether a person was intoxicated

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).