Pennsylvania Drunk Driving Case Law
Please find, below, selected case laws decided by Supreme Court of Pennsylvania or Court of Appeals of Pennsylvania where the terms dui, dwi, drunk driving, or driving under the influence has been mentioned. These cases are not necessarily criminal cases and may include cases where the facts or court decision merely mentions drunk driving related legal terms. You are not to rely on these cases as legal advice nor should you rely on them for accuracy. Please see Terms of Service.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Thomas - 12/7/1999
1 This matter is before us on appeal by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania from the judgment of sentence entered following the trial court's refusal to sentence the defendant under a section of the Pennsylvania Sentencing Code commonly...
Burke v. The Buck Hotel - 12/6/1999
Kenneth Burke appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County (trial court) which denied his motion for post-trial relief seeking a new trial . We affirm.
On August 7, 1993, Burke was a passenger in a vehicle...
Pennsylvania State Police v. Pennsylvania State Troopers Association - 11/30/1999
These matters involve the narrow certiorari scope of review, applicable to appeals from Act 111 grievance arbitration awards, as defined by this court's recent unanimous decision of Pennsylvania State Police v. Pennsylvania State...
Commonwealth v. Kneer - 11/17/1999
J. S55012/99
*Petition for Reargument Filed 12/1/1999 *
*Petition for Reargument Denied 1/26/2000 *
The Commonwealth brings this appeal from an order granting Appellee's motions to suppress physical evidence and...
Commonwealth v. Fogel - 11/15/1999
This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered by the Court of Common Pleas of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. We affirm.
Appellant entered a plea of guilty to Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol or...
Commonwealth v. Small - 11/1/1999
JUSTICE CASTILLE DECIDED
This is a direct appeal from a sentence of death imposed by the Court of Common Pleas of York County. Following a jury trial, which commenced on May 7, 1996, appellant was convicted of first degree...
McKinley v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 10/26/1999
SUBMITTED: April 14, 1999
OPINION BY JUDGE SMITH
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT) appeals from the May 11, 1997 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County that...
Carlin v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 10/22/1999
Submitted: September 15, 1999
OPINION BY JUDGE FRIEDMAN
John A. Carlin (Carlin) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County (trial court) that denied his appeal from a one-year suspension of his...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Brown - 10/19/1999
1 This matter is before the Court on Timothy Brown's (Appellant) appeal from the judgment of sentence, as made final by the denial of post-sentencing motions. For the reasons set forth below, we vacate the judgment of sentence and...
Foore v. Commonwealth - 10/18/1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County (trial court) sustaining the appeal of Juanita Foore (Licensee) from a one-year suspension of her...
Commonwealth v. Cotton - 10/12/1999
Appellant Kymmar Cotton appeals from the judgment of sentence of eighteen months probation imposed after his conviction for the offenses of carrying a loaded firearm without a license and carrying a loaded firearm on the streets of...
Warrick v. Pro Cor Ambulance - 10/12/1999
[J-17-1999]
ORDER
AND NOW, this 12th day of October, 1999, the Order of the Commonwealth Court is affirmed. See White v. School District of Philadelphia, 718 A.2d 778 (Pa. 1998).
Madame Justice Newman files a...
Banner v. Commonwealth - 9/29/1999
We granted allocatur in this license suspension case to determine whether the arresting officer had reasonable grounds to believe that Appellant was operating or in actual physical control of a motor vehicle while under the influence...
Commonwealth v. Downs - 9/21/1999
1 This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of 90 days imprisonment imposed after Appellant, Joseph J. Downs, was found guilty, following a trial de novo, of driving while his license was under suspension, DUI-related, in...
Commonwealth v. Starr - 9/21/1999
1 Appellant, Reed Atville Starr, appeals from his October 7, 1998 judgment of sentence of a $300 fine and forty-eight (48) hours to twenty-three (23) months' imprisonment imposed after he was convicted of driving under the influence...
Brown v. Commonwealth - 9/17/1999
ARGUED: March 10, 1999
Mary Jill Brown (Licensee) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County (trial court) which denied her statutory appeal of a suspension of her operating privilege imposed by the...
Commonwealth v. Jagodzinski - 9/14/1999
1 In this appeal, the Commonwealth alleges trial court error in admitting John Jagodzinski ("Jagodzinski") into the Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition ("ARD") program over the Commonwealth's objection. Finding trial court...
Karabinos v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 9/2/1999
Submitted: April 30, 1999
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County sustaining the statutory appeal of...
Koterba v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 8/26/1999
BY JUDGE LEADBETTER
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County sustaining the appeal of Gregory Koterba from a one year suspension of his...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Downing - 8/24/1999
1 Richard Downing appeals from the judgment of sentence entered following his conviction for driving under the influence (DUI). We affirm.
2 On August 20, 1995, Pennsylvania State Police Trooper John Angelo was dispatched to...
Commonwealth v. Clark - 8/17/1999
On January 18, 1996, at approximately two o'clock in the morning, Officer Lester Fetterman of the Erie Police Department was on routine patrol. While on patrol, he received information from a radio dispatcher that a person had called...
Lafferty v. Commonwealth - 8/17/1999
Submitted: May 28, 1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Blair County (common pleas court) that sustained the appeal of George D. Lafferty...
Commonwealth v. Cotton - 8/16/1999
1 Appellant Kymmar Cotton appeals from the judgment of sentence of eighteen months probation imposed after his conviction for the offenses of carrying a loaded firearm without a license and carrying a loaded firearm on the streets...
Commonwealth v. Collins - 8/13/1999
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court dated February 23, 1999
ORDER
AND NOW, this 13th day of August, 1999, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, limited to the following issue: ...
Randy W. Boots v. Commonwealth - 8/5/1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) which sustained the statutory appeal of Randy Boots (Boots). We affirm. ...
Collins v. Commonwealth - 8/3/1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Delaware County (trial court) sustaining the statutory appeal of Thomas . Collins from a one year...
Commonwealth v. McCurdy - 8/3/1999
We allowed appeal to consider whether Appellant's convictions for driving under the influence pursuant to Section 3731(a)(1) of the Vehicle Code and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence are undermined by the...
Pepperling v. Commonwealth - 7/27/1999
SUBMITTED: June 11, 1999
Roberta Pepperling (Licensee) appeals from the October 9, 1998 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County (trial court) dismissing her appeal from a one-year suspension of her operating...
Grover v. Commonwealth - 7/26/1999
Robert T. Grover (Grover), appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court), dismissing his appeal of the Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing's (DOT) decision to suspend his...
Commonwealth v. Petroll - 7/22/1999
FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY
On May 15, 1996, a jury found Fredrick W. Petroll (Appellant) guilty of three counts of homicide by vehicle, one count of failing to drive a vehicle at a safe speed, and one count of careless...
Commonwealth v. Masters - 7/22/1999
1 The Commonwealth appeals to this Court from the order granting Appellee's, Michael Masters', motion to suppress. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse and remand for further proceedings consistent with this opinion. The...
Commonwealth v. Wolgemuth - 7/20/1999
Appeal from the Order entered November 5, 1998
1 This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lancaster County granting the Commonwealth's petition for a hearing following dismissal of a second complaint...
Lutz v. Commonwealth - 7/19/1999
SUBMITTED: April 1,1999
BEFORE: HONORABLE ROCHELLE S. FRIEDMAN, Judge HONORABLE BONNIE BRIGANCE LEADBETTER, Judge HONORABLE CHARLES A. LORD, Senior Judge
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing...
Commonwealth v. Javit - 7/13/1999
1 The issue presented in this appeal is whether a person who holds a probationary license pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S.A. §1554 may be convicted of driving while operating privilege is suspended or revoked (D.U.I.-related) on the basis of...
Hook v. Commonwealth - 7/8/1999
Submitted: May 14, 1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Washington County sustaining David R. Hook's appeal from a one-year suspension of...
Commonwealth v. Arest - 7/8/1999
1 In this appeal, the Commonwealth asks us to determine whether Appellee Kazimierz Arest's sentence for a second conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol ("DUI") is illegal. Specifically, we must decide whether the...
Leftheris v. Commonwealth - 7/6/1999
SUBMITTED: November 20, 1998
Nick Leftheris appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County (trial court), which dismissed his statutory appeal of a one year suspension of his operating privilege. We affirm. ...
Commonwealth v. Scavello - 7/2/1999
[J-65-1999]
ARGUED: APRIL 27, 1999
When police are conducting a roadblock, may they stop and detain a driver simply because he has turned to avoid passing through the roadblock?
On November 23, 1993 police set up a...
Ellis v. Commonwealth - 6/24/1999
SUBMITTED: October 9, 1998
Appellant Michael Ellis appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) dismissing his statutory appeal of a one year suspension of his operating privilege. ...
Commonwealth v. Chester - 6/24/1999
[J-122-98]
On Appeal from the Order of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas (September 2, 1997)(Biester, J.) denying relief under the Post-Conviction Relief Act
Submitted: June 9, 1998
This is a direct appeal from...
Incarvite v. Commonwealth - 6/23/1999
Submitted: April 30, 1999
Frank Incarvite (Incarvite) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court), which denied Incarvite's appeal from a one-year suspension of his operating privilege,...
Rouse v. Commonwealth - 6/22/1999
SUBMITTED: April 1, 1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of the 37th Judicial District, Warren County Branch, sustaining the statutory appeal...
Commonwealth v. Vetrini - 6/15/1999
Appellant, Anthony Vetrini, appeals from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County, following his convictions for driving with a suspended license (DUI-related). He now challenges the Commonwealth's...
Burke v. Commonwealth - 6/8/1999
Submitted: February 5, 1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT), appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) which sustained the appeal of James V. Burke...
Commonwealth v. Thomas - 6/1/1999
Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the Order of the Superior Court.
ORDER
AND NOW, this 1st day of June 1999, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is GRANTED, limited to the issue of whether Petitioner's counsel was...
Barbour v. Commonwealth - 5/20/1999
The issue presented to this court is what constitutes "competent medical evidence" sufficient to show that a driver's medical condition which was unrelated to consumption of alcohol rendered the driver's refusal to undergo chemical...
Scott v. Commonwealth - 5/11/1999
No. 1475 C.D. 1998
Argued: March 10, 1999
ARGUED: March 10, 1999
In these consolidated appeals, Jarrett Carl Scott and Mathew S. Liero (appellants) appeal from orders of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County...
Commonwealth v. Kling - 5/7/1999
1 John J. Kling appeals from the judgment of sentence entered following his convictions for third degree murder, aggravated assault, recklessly endangering another person, and possession of marijuana. We affirm.
2 On August...
[T] Commonwealth v. Zabierowsky - 4/28/1999
1 William Zabierowsky appeals from a judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County following his conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI). We affirm.
2 Zabierowsky's arrest...
Maxion v. Commonwealth - 4/23/1999
Submitted: March 12, 1999
Emil E. Maxion (Maxion) appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court), which denied Maxion's petition for leave to file a nunc pro tunc statutory appeal from a...
Roche v. State Employes' Retirement Board - 4/22/1999
ARGUED: December 9, 1998
ORDER
AND NOW, this 20th day of May, 1999, it is Ordered that the above-captioned opinion filed April 22, 1999 shall be designated OPINION, rather than MEMORANDUM OPINION, and it shall be reported. ...
Commonwealth v. Pypiak - 4/20/1999
1 The Commonwealth appeals from an order directing Appellee's admission into an Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition (ARD) program. The sole issue raised on appeal is whether the trial court erred in ordering Appellee's admission...
Commonwealth v. Roman - 4/14/1999
1 The Commonwealth appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County, which granted Luis Roman's petition under the Post Conviction Relief Act (PCRA). We reverse.
2 The record reveals that during the...
Commonwealth v. Booth - 4/7/1999
Submitted: January 11, 1999
1 On June 29, 1997, appellee was driving his vehicle along Hahntown-Wendell Road in North Huntingdon Township when he allegedly failed to stop for a stop sign and struck the car driven by Nancy...
Millili v. Commonwealth - 3/25/1999
The Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (PennDOT) appeals from an Order of the Commonwealth Court that reversed an Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court) upholding...
Smega v. Commonwealth - 3/16/1999
The Department of Transportation (Department) appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court), dated December 18, 1997, which sustained the appeal of Peter Paul Smega (Smega) from a one-year...
Commonwealth v. Laird - 3/1/1999
[J-131-98]
On Appeal from the Order of the Bucks County Court of Common Pleas (September 2, 1997)(Biester, J.) denying relief under the Post-Conviction Relief Act
Submitted: June 9, 1998
This is a direct appeal from...
Cerando v. Commonwealth - 2/26/1999
Submitted: October 9, 1998
Randy Cerando (Cerando) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County (trial court) denying Cerando's statutory appeal from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of...
Kline v. Commonwealth - 2/25/1999
SUBMITTED: December 4, 1998
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Cumberland County (trial court) sustaining the appeal of John P. Kline...
Commonwealth v. Anders - 2/18/1999
Joseph Wayne Anders, Jr. (Appellant) appeals an Order of the Superior Court, en banc, that affirmed the Judgment of Sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Huntingdon County (trial court) on Appellant's conviction for driving under...
Correll v. Commonwealth - 2/18/1999
ARGUED: October 7, 1998
Cheryl Correll appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Chester County, Civil Division, dated January 15, 1998, which denied her appeal and reinstated a one year suspension of her operating...
Golinsky v. Commonwealth - 2/12/1999
Submitted: January 8, 1999
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Indiana County sustaining the appeal of Richard Edward Golinksky from its...
Sweet v. Commonwealth - 2/12/1999
Submitted: January 8, 1999
John Patrick Sweet (Sweet) appeals from the March 5, 1998 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County (Common Pleas) that denied Sweet's appeal of the one-year suspension of his operating...
Warner v. Commonwealth - 1/27/1999
Submitted: November 13, 1998
BEFORE: HONORABLE ROCHELLE S. FRIEDMAN, Judge HONORABLE JAMES R. KELLEY, Judge HONORABLE JESS S. JIULIANTE, Senior Judge
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Bureau of...
Commonwealth v. Robertson - 1/27/1999
J-117-98
456 Pa. Super. 209, 690 A.2d 254 (1997).
ARGUED: April 30, 1998
OPINION IN SUPPORT OF AFFIRMANCE
The issue in this appeal is whether the 1988 version of the Maryland crime of driving while intoxicated...
Todd v. Commonwealth - 1/21/1999
SUBMITTED: October 21, 1998
This appeal was allowed to determine whether, for purposes of drivers' license suspension under the implied consent provision of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. §1547(b)(1), a licensee must be afforded...
McCloskey v. Commonwealth - 1/12/1999
SUBMITTED: October 23, 1998
Thomas J. McCloskey (licensee) appeals from the April 23, 1998 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lehigh County (trial court) denying his statutory appeal and directing the Department of...
Dailey v. Commonwealth - 1/5/1999
Submitted: September 4, 1998
The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Bureau) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County (trial court) which sustained the statutory appeal of...
McKinley v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - 12/16/1998
SUBMITTED: October 2, 1998
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (department) appeals from the May 11, 1997 order of the Court of Common Pleas of Dauphin County (trial court) sustaining the...
Finney v. Commonwealth - 12/10/1998
Submitted: August 28, 1998
Scott Finney (Finney) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County (trial court) which dismissed his statutory appeal of a suspension of his driver's license imposed by the...
Brinker's International Inc. v. Workers' Compensation Appeal Board - 12/10/1998
Submitted: August 21, 1998
Brinker's International, Inc. (Employer) appeals an order of the Workers' Compensation Appeal Board, which affirmed and modified an order of a Workers' Compensation Judge (WCJ) awarding Todd...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Schatzel - 12/4/1998
This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence entered in the Court of Common Pleas of Luzerne County following Appellant's conviction on the charge of driving while under the influence of alcohol (DUI). Herein, Appellant contends...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Erb - 11/30/1998
Appellant Anthony Erb brings this appeal following his conviction for driving under suspension (D.U.I. related) in a waiver trial on August 12, 1997. He received a sentence of ninety days imprisonment and a fine of $1,000. He now...
Commomwealth of Pennsylvania v. Smith - 11/24/1998
The Commonwealth appeals from the judgment of sentence and the order entered December 11, 1996, by the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County which denied a consent forfeiture order and applied appellee's seized assets to pay...
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Alston - 11/24/1998
This appeal arises out of three separate criminal cases involving appellee, Robert Anton Alston, a/k/a Robert A. Alston. The Commonwealth appeals from the judgments of sentence and the orders entered against appellee on April 1, 1996,...
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