Gammer v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that licensee slumped over in the driver’s seat of car with engine running while parked in unusual location established reasonable grounds
• explaining that “[g]enerally, the motorist’s presence in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with the engine on has been deemed sufficient to satisfy the reasonable grounds test”
• reasonable grounds existed where 9 officer found licensee in the driver’s seat with the car running while parked in a parking lot
• “Generally, the motorist’s presence in the driver’s seat of the vehicle with the engine on has been deemed sufficient to satisfy the reasonable grounds test.”
• “It is immaterial whether alternative reasonable explanations for how the motorist came to be as he was found exist.”
• “unusual location of the vehicle next to the dumpsters at the far end of the parking lot” demonstrated the motorist had driven the vehicle

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).