An attorney representing the estate of an allegedly intoxicated man who was killed by a car as he crossed the street asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to bar courts from introducing blood alcohol information in civil cases without some corroborating evidence from a witness at the scene.
According to Anthony Comerota, who represented the estate of Thomas Coughlin before the justices Tuesday, courts have recognized that evidence of a party’s blood content is highly prejudicial, and precedent should have barred evidence of his client’s 0.313 blood alcohol content from entering into the civil trial against the driver, Ummu Massaquoi.
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