State v. Pickering

WATHEN, Justice.

Defendant Jeffrey Pickering was convicted by jury verdict in the Superior Court (Cumberland County) of the criminal offense of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor. 29 M.R.S.A. § 1312-B (1983). The defendant presents three issues on appeal from that conviction: (1) the presiding justice erred, at the suppression hearing, in excluding evidence of the reliability of a test for blood-alcohol content; (2) the complaint im-permissibly charged him with operating while under the influence or, in the alternative, with operating while having an…