Strategies, Challenges, and Answers

Use + Impairment + Admissibility

When a case is tried, will evidence of the driver’s prior drug or alcohol use always be given to the jury? The South Carolina Supreme Court gives an answer in the case of Kennedy v. Griffin and Dick Simon Trucking, Inc., 358 S.C. 122, 595 S.E.2d 248 (Ct. App. 2004). In Kennedy, the plaintiff said he got hurt when he ran his car into the back of a stopped semi. Weather was clear and . . .