Commonwealth v. Eichhorn’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “A ‘habitual offender shall be any person whose driving record, as maintained in the department, shows that such person has accumulated the requisite number of convictions for the separate and distinct offenses described and enumerated in subsection (b) committed after the effective date of this title and within any period of five years thereafter. (Emphasis added.) Subsection (b) provides: Offenses Enumerated. — Three convictions arising from separate acts of any one or more of the . following offenses committed either singularly or in combination by any person shall result in such person being designated as a habitual offender: (1) Any offense set forth in Section 1532 (relating to revocation or suspension of operating privilege).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Conner