BARKLEY v. STATE

No. 116, 1998.

724 A.2d 558 (1999)

Eric BARKLEY, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 19, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph M. Bernstein, Wilmington, for appellant.

John Williams, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice, Dover, for appellee.

Before VEASEY, C.J., WALSH, HOLLAND, HARTNETT, and BERGER, JJ., constituting the Court En Banc.


WALSH, Justice:

In this appeal from the Superior Court, we are required to determine whether the automatic revocation of driving privileges that must be imposed at the time of sentencing for certain drug offenses is a direct penal consequence of a plea of guilty. The Superior Court ruled that the license revocation was a collateral consequence of a plea of guilty and the defendant's awareness of that consequence was not required incident to the acceptance of the plea...

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