Legal Opinion
Commonwealth v. Collins
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Decided January 17, 2001No. 210 M.D. Appeal Docket 1999PublishedCited by 62 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
ZAPPALA, Justice.
We granted allocatur to determine whether the offenses of homicide by vehicle and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) merge for sentencing purposes. Due to the mutually exclusive nature of the statutory elements, we hold that homicide by vehicle is not a lesser included offense of homicide by vehicle/DUI and therefore the *146Superior Court properly affirmed the imposition of separate sentences. Accordingly, we affirm.
The record establishes that on September 80, 1995, a motor vehicle accident occurred in which a passenger in the vehicle…
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