IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
EASTERN DISTRICT
ANN COUGHLIN, ADMINISTRATRIX OF : No. 166 EAL 2016
THE ESTATE OF THOMAS COUGHLIN, :
DECEASED, :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from
Petitioner : the Order of the Superior Court
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v. :
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UMMU MASSAQUOI, :
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Respondent :
ORDER
PER CURIAM
AND NOW, this 24th day of August, 2016, the Petition for Allowance of Appeal is
GRANTED. The issue, as stated by Petitioner, is:
In a civil trial brought on behalf of a pedestrian who was killed by a
motorist, is it reversible error where the defendant motorist admits
evidence of the pedestrian’s uncorroborated post-mortem blood alcohol
content (BAC) by way of a toxicology expert who merely explains the
uncorroborated BAC in terms of how an equivalent BAC would render an
“average” person unfit to cross the street?