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· 10/5/1994

Commonwealth v. Yarger

Citations

  • 648 A.2d 529
  • 538 Pa. 329
  • 1994 Pa. LEXIS 493

How courts have described this case

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  • BAC result of .18% is sufficient by itself to establish prima facie case of DUI, and Commonwealth is not required to present expert testimony to establish relation back
  • BAC result of .18% is sufficient by itself to establish prima facie case of DUI, and Commonwealth is not required to present expert testimony to establish relation back
  • “If the defendant decides to rebut the prima facie evidence against him with expert testimony, then the Commonwealth may present its own expert to refute this testimony.”
  • blood alcohol test result of 0.18% performed approximately forty minutes after stop sufficient for jury to infer BAC of 0.10% at time of stop, and state not required to present expert testimony to relate BAC test back to time of stop
  • blood alcohol test result of 0.18% performed approximately forty minutes after stop sufficient for jury to infer BAC of 0.10% at time of stop, and state not required to present expert testimony to relate BAC test back to time of stop

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Cappy, Castille, Docket, Flaherty, Montemuro, Nix, Papadakos, Zappala

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