Commonwealth v. Goodson

By Judge Thomas J. Middleton

Defendant is before the court on a charge of driving on a revoked license after having been adjudged an habitual offender. Va. Code § 46.2-357. In this proceeding, defendant is attempting to collaterally attack his habitual offender adjudication by asserting that four of the predicate convictions were jurisdictionally defective. For reasons set forth below, the court finds that all four convictions and the habitual offender adjudication are valid.

On April 15, 1991, the Circuit Court of the County of Stafford adjudged the defendant to be an habitual offender. The…