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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 decision issued on April 25, 2008, a panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court ruled that an investigatory stop of a car with a loud muffler was permitted where the investigating officer did not have any of the required, specialized training necessary to issue a noise citation for faulty exhaust. During the stop, the driver was arrested for DUI. No muffler violation was ever filed. This decision essentially validates a form of pretext stops in Pennsylvania. The full text of the case can be found here. The dissent raises serious and legitimate concerns about the potential for abuse that this decision permits.