Court Opinion

ID: 9392946
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-05-08 18:12:55.107372+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:18:50.100303
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NON-PRECEDENTIAL DECISION - SEE SUPERIOR COURT I.O.P. 65.37

    COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA                 :    IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF
                                                 :         PENNSYLVANIA
                       Appellant                 :
                                                 :
                                                 :
                v.                               :
                                                 :
                                                 :
    KEVIN LEE SHOLAR                             :    No. 385 MDA 2022

        Appeal from the Judgment of Sentence Entered February 1, 2022
    In the Court of Common Pleas of York County Criminal Division at No(s):
                           CP-67-CR-0004181-2021

BEFORE:      OLSON, J., McCAFFERY, J., and COLINS, J.*

CONCURRING STATEMENT BY McCAFFERY, J.:                             FILED: MAY 8, 2023

        I agree that we are bound by the en banc Majority decisions in Richards

and Moroz to treat Appellant’s prior acceptance of ARD as a first DUI offense.

See Commonwealth v. Richards, 284 A.3d 214, 220-21 (Pa. Super. 2022),

appeal     granted,    518    MAL    2022      (Pa.   Mar.   15,    2023)   (en   banc);

Commonwealth v. Moroz, 284 A.3d 227, 233 (Pa. Super. 2022) (en banc).1

However, for the reasons expressed in my Dissenting Opinions, I believe

Richards and Moroz were wrongly decided. See Richards, 284 A.3d at 222-

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*   Retired Senior Judge assigned to the Superior Court.

1  See also Commonwealth v. Verbeck, 290 A.3d 260 (Pa. 2023);
Commonwealth v. Hummel, __ A.3d __, 1147 MDA 2022 (Pa. Super. April
4, 2023).
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26 (Dissenting Op., McCaffery, J.); Moroz, 284 A.3d at 235-39 (Dissenting

Op., McCaffery, J.). Thus, I am constrained to concur in this decision.

      Judge Colins joins the Concurring Statement.

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