Legal Opinion
Piasecki v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing
Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania
Decided October 25, 2010PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1069OPINION BY
Judge BROBSON.
Petitioner Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (Department), appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Lackawanna County (trial court), reversing the Department’s suspension of Michael E. Piasecki’s (Licensee) driver’s license. The trial court based its decision on an impermissible collateral attack on the underlying conviction. This, along with the Department’s fulfillment of its statutory obligations for a license suspension, would ordinarily result in reversal. But, this case presents a rare instance where the narrow facts lead us to…
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- Commonwealth v. GrubbCommonwealth Court of Pennsylvania · 1992
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