Commonwealth v. Monarch

OPINION BY

PANELLA, J.

About an hour before noon on a Saturday morning, Donna Peltier, the mother of Appellant,.Samuel Monarch, contacted the Franklin County 911 Emergency Services Center. She informed them that her son was intoxicated and had just driven away from her residence with his eight-year-old daughter. Officers caught up with Monarch inside his residence shortly thereafter and observed that Monarch’s speech was slurred, he reeked of alcohol, and he was unstable while standing. Monarch refused to take sobriety tests and refused breath and blood tests.

At trial, Peltier testified that…