The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to consider whether expert testimony on the effect of alcohol provides a sufficient basis for allowing into evidence that a deceased plaintiff was allegedly drunk when he was struck and killed by a car.
The justices granted allocatur in Coughlin v. Massaquoi on Aug. 24. The court agreed to take up the case on the sole issue of whether expert testimony on how a blood alcohol content level may impair an “average” person is sufficient to allow a court to admit uncorroborated, post-mortem evidence of a decedent’s blood alcohol content.
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