180 Md. App. 35 - Sullivan v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “[T]he right to drive, it’s a privilege, it’s a privilege to drive, it’s not a card you carry in your pocket.... I think, in a lot of these statutes and lot of the cases they distinguish between the privilege to drive and the license to drive ... and it seems to me that ... the privilege is a sort of automatic thing, as opposed to a license which you have to apply for until such a time that, [the] privilege gets taken away.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sullivan

2. “Where Sullivan’s Motor Vehicle Administration records showed that he had been “revoked” and “suspended” and he had accumulated 15 points, did the Court of Special Appeals err in holding that Sullivan could not be convicted of driving after revocation of his driving privilege under section 16-303(d) of the Transportation Article?”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sullivan