79 Misc. 2d 131 - People v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
3
states following
May 2008
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
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“What all this means, of course, is that the defendant has found a convenient loophole in the Vehicle and Traffic Law.... [A]n individual who flagrantly violates the law by never applying for a license but driving nevertheless is in a better legal position than an individual whose driving record is blemished by a single offense and whose license was consequently revoked. The flagrant lawbreaker apparently can only be charged with a violation upon his arrest ... regardless of the number of convictions he has had for the same offense. However, the single offender subsequently arrested for operation while license is revoked is subject to prosecution for a misdemeanor. We urge the legislature to close the loophole and correct the obvious inequities in the law.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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