Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing v. Richardson

CRAIG, President Judge.

The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (the department) appeals an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County that sustained the statutory appeal of William Richardson from the department’s 1992 revocation of his operating privileges for an act Richardson committed in 1980 but for which he was not convicted until 1992.

There is no dispute in this case that the department has legitimately established a prima facie case against Richardson. The question on appeal is whether the department can revoke Richardson’s operating privileges twelve…