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Multiple drug offenses result in multiple license suspensions PDF Print E-mail
In a Commonwealth Court case docketed at Giambrone v. Commonwealth, 484 C.D. 2006, an en banc panel of the Commonwealth Court ruled on June 13, 2007 that an individual sentenced to a totally concurrent sentence for twelve drug possession offenses over a three and a half month period should have her licenses suspended for 11 periods of six months consecutive to each other.  Two of the offenses occurred on the same date, giving rise to only eleven suspensions for the twelve offenses overall.
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In a case decided on April 27, 2007, the Commonwealth Court ruled that acceptance into and completion of ARD for a DUI case disqualified an individual from holding a commercial driver's license (CDL) for a year, even though the suspension of his personal license was only for 30 days and even though the DUI offense occurred using a personal vehicle and not a commercial vehicle.
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