Commonwealth v. Retkofsky

How courts have described this case

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

• recognizing “[i]t would have taken only a trivial event, such as a child or pet darting from the side of the road in front of [Ap-pellee’s van], to precipitate a vehicular swerve and/or crash, with the likely result of injury to [the child].”
• upholding EWOC conviction where father fled from police on an ATV at high speed with his son clinging to his back
• rejecting appellant’s argument that a single instance of misconduct is not the type of harm contemplated under the statute where father knew he was placing son at risk by fleeing from police on ATV while son was on the back of it unrestrained
• “Whether particular conduct falls within the purview of the statute is to be determined within the context of the ‘common sense of the community.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).