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PA Superior Court shoots down "second-second" DUI sentence appeal |
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The Pennsylvania Superior Court has issued a published opinion on simultaneous sentencing for multiple pending DUI offenses.
It ruled that where a defendant entered a plea on two pending offenses
where she had one prior offense within the past ten years, that one of
the two new pleas should be sentenced as a second offense and that the
other should be sentenced as a third offense. The Superior Court
refused to accept the argument of defense counsel that both offenses
should be treated as second offenses (a "second-second" disposition).
The entire opinion can be found here. This decision appears to eliminate a possible sentence reduction strategy for defendants with multiple pending DUIs.
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