288 Pa. Super. 471 - Commonwealth v. Slout’s Empirical Analysis

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33 state decisions

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1. “The fact that Officer Lowmiller did not actually see Slout driving the truck is not fatal to the Commonwealth’s case. In Commonwealth v. Palmer, 265 Pa.Super. 462 , 402 A.2d 530 (1979) the defendant argued that the evidence was insufficient as a matter of law to convict him of driving under the influence because no one saw him actually driving the vehicle. The court rejected this argument because the defendant had admitted that he was the operator of the vehicle to the investigating police officer and such admission was admissible at trial as an exception to the hearsay rule. Here, the officer testified that on three different occasions Donald Slout indicated that he was the driver. The fact that he was under the influence of alcohol when he initially made this admission does not affect the admissibility of these statements but rather goes to the weight which the jury may have given this testimony. At trial the appellee did not deny that he was the driver but only stated that he did not know if he was operating the truck.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 304 Pa. Super. 327 - Commonwealth v. Devereaux