The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear arguments over whether convictions must be merged for the purpose of a drivers’ license suspension just because they were merged for sentencing purposes in the underlying criminal proceeding.
The justices issued an order Nov. 19 granting allocatur in Bell v. Commonwealth, agreeing to take up two issues: whether Section 1532(a.1) of the Pennsylvania Vehicle Code explicitly provides a suspension for both homicide by vehicle and homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and whether license suspensions and criminal sentences are governed by different merger rules.
