Court Opinion

ID: 9764532
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 03:26:11.586081+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:29:57.932441
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KELLY, Judge,
dissenting:
Notwithstanding the majority’s cogent reasoning that section 6503 is merely a sentencing enhancement and not a separate offense, I must dissent. Whatever the wisdom of Commonwealth v. Sperry, 395 Pa.Super. 400, 577 A.2d 603 (1990) (en banc), which held that charges under section 6503 are “unsupportable because to sustain a charge under section 6503, it was necessary for the Commonwealth to allege in the complaint under the enhancement section, the prior violation and conviction under section 1543,” id. (citations omitted), I, as a member of a three judge panel, believe that I must follow the Sperry en banc decision until an en banc Superior Court or the Supreme Court overrules it. See Jones v. Rudenstein, 401 Pa.Super. 400, 585 A.2d 520 (1991) (Olszewski, J., concurring).