In a college community where 65% of all crimes after 8:00 p.m. are known to be alcohol fueled, identifying the supplier of alcohol becomes a critical component to effective enforcement. In State College Borough, home to 40,000 Penn State University students, fighting...
The Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board gave State College Borough $80,000 about a year ago to initiate an 18-month pilot program aimed at getting to the source of underage drinking. State College’s program is winding down (please read story below), and the Borough...
75 Pa.C.S. § 1547(c) contains explicit language requiring that, in order to provide “admissible” evidence “breath test devices “shall have been calibrated and tested for accuracy within a period of time and in a manner specified by regulations of the Departments of...
Unrebutted evidence of alcohol ingestion obtained from a PBT device, in conjunction with evidence of a defendant’s minority age, is sufficient to establish the offense of underage consumption of alcohol. Commonwealth v. Breslin, 732 A.2d 629, 631 (Pa.Super. 1999),...
By Aubrey Whelan Collegian Staff Writer Unlike more than 100 university presidents at some of the most prominent schools in the country, Penn State President Graham Spanier declined to join a controversial initiative that aims to “rethink the drinking...
Commonwealth v. Wood Well reasoned Pa Superior Court decision holding that troopers lack reasonable suspicion to detain alleged underage drinker for investigation when they proceeded on nothing more than her appearance as appearing to be under twenty-one years of age....
