Long v. Commonwealth

ANNUNZIATA, Judge.

Following a jury trial, appellant, Patrick Raymond Long, was convicted of driving after having been adjudicated an habitual offender and after having been previously convicted of the same offense. Appellant contends that the trial .court erred in refusing to allow him to present a necessity defense and that the initial habitual offender order cannot serve as the basis for his conviction. We disagree and affirm.

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At approximately 10:15 a.m. on November 18,1994, Officer Sherrie Bishop of the Alexandria Police Department stopped a vehicle which appellant was driving and in which…