Commonwealth v. Zevitas

How courts have described this case

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

• noting prejudicial effect to defendant when jury given inappropriate limiting instruction on absence of breathalyzer evidence
• discussing the highly prejudicial effect of evidence of a defendant’s refusal to take a breath test to measure his blood alcohol level
• requiring jury instruction on defendant’s refusal to submit to blood alcohol test unconstitutional
• which declared unconstitutional the statute mandating such an instruction as a violation of the privilege against self-incrimination

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).