Commonwealth v. Brody

FORNELLI, J.,

This is a summary appeal from defendant’s conviction of exceeding the maximum speed limits by traveling 72 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone. Defendant’s speed was clocked from an airplane on Interstate 79 in Mercer County by timing defendant’s travel between two marked lines on the roadway with a calibrated stopwatch which had been properly approved and tested for accuracy.

The issue for this court is the admissibility of Commonwealth’s Exhibit 2, which is a Penn Dot survey showing the location of the two marked lines on Interstate 79 and the distance between them as…