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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 12/31/1985

Commonwealth v. Hess

Citations

  • 502 A.2d 707
  • 348 Pa. Super. 600
  • 1985 Pa. Super. LEXIS 10444

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  • noting that the defendant’s sentence was patently illegal at the time it was imposed because the trial court did not apply the mandatory minimum sentence statute
  • remanding for resentencing despite the fact that the defendant had already served sentence in its entirety because the trial court imposed an illegal sentence that was not authorized by current authority
  • Commonwealth was not required to aver prior DUI convictions in criminal information in order to seek sentencing for defendant under recidivist provision of drunk driving law [75 Pa.C.S. § 3731(e)] upon defendant's voluntary plea of guilty to DUI
  • Commonwealth was not required to aver prior DUI convictions in criminal information in order to seek sentencing for defendant under recidivist provision of drunk driving law [75 Pa.C.S. § 3731(e) ] upon defendant’s voluntary plea of guilty to DUI

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Rowley, Spaeth, Brosky, Row-Ley, Wieand, McEwen, Cirillo, Olszewski, Mon-Temuro, Tamilia

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