People v. Rivera’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “The uncontroverted facts are that the defendant does not have a license, never applied for one and indeed, never had one. He has received repeated summonses for motor vehicle violations however. This case is identical to People v. Evans, 79 Misc.2d 131 , 359 N.Y.S.2d 449 (1974) where the Court reversed a conviction ... because the defendant had never been licensed to drive. The Court there refused to conclude that “license” ... should be read in its generic sense as synonymous with “operating privilege.” In so doing, however, the Court recognized that the defendant had found a convenient loophole in the law. The Court in Evans urged the legislature to correct this inequity in the law. In 1976, [the statute] was amended to read “Any person operating a motor vehicle upon a public highway while his license or his privilege of operating a motor vehicle in this state or his privilege of obtaining a license issued by the commissioner is suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor[.]””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 180 Md. App. 35 - Sullivan v. State