A teenager’s testimony that an adult friend bought him a case of beer, which he drank on a nighttime ride through Berks County that ended with a car crash, is sufficient to support criminal charges against the adult, a Superior Court panel ruled.
The case attracted tongue-in-cheek media attention after Berks County Common Pleas Judge Jeffrey K. Sprecher dismissed a charge of furnishing alcohol to minors against Gregg R. Hartman despite the minor’s admission that during a 20-minute car ride he guzzled six or seven cans of Miller Genuine Draft from a case that Hartman had purchased for him.
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