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Com. v. English

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Nov 21, 2007
934 A.2d 701 (Pa. 2007)

Opinion

November 21, 2007.

Appeal No. 44 WAP 2005 from the Order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County entered September 20, 2005 at No. CP-02-CR-0009043-2004.


ORDER


AND NOW, this 21st day of November, 2007, the order of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas is reversed insofar as it declared Section 3802 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3802, unconstitutional, and the case is remanded for further proceedings. This Court upheld the constitutionality of Sections 3802(a)(2) and 3802(c) in Commonwealth v. Duda, 592 Pa. 164, 923 A.2d 1138 (2007), and Commonwealth v. Finchio, 592 Pa. 577, 926 A.2d 968 (2007), respectively. Although Appellee was charged under Section 3802(b), this Court explained in Finchio that "[t]he difference in the statutory BAC threshold is immaterial to the analysis employed in Duda." Finchio, 926 A.2d at 971. The Commonwealth's petition for an immediate remand is dismissed as moot.


Summaries of

Com. v. English

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Nov 21, 2007
934 A.2d 701 (Pa. 2007)
Case details for

Com. v. English

Case Details

Full title:COMMONWEALTH of Pennsylvania, Appellant v. Carole Lynn ENGLISH, Appellee

Court:Supreme Court of Pennsylvania

Date published: Nov 21, 2007

Citations

934 A.2d 701 (Pa. 2007)
934 A.2d 701