MONTPELIER, Vt. — Vermont is reviewing about 900 convictions from the last 16 months for criminal driving with a suspended license to determine how many might have been improperly resulted from incomplete information about a driver’s efforts to erase previous civil suspensions.
“Some of these convictions will be properly based and some may require further review,” state Court Administrator Patricia Gabel wrote in an email to The Associated Press.
Prosecutions for one of Vermont’s most common crimes were thrown into disarray earlier this month when it was revealed there was uncertainty in some cases about how many previous and still-unresolved civil offenses drivers had – making it unclear whether they were eligible to be charged criminally.
Officials said the source of the problem is not specific enough information moving from the Judicial Bureau, which processes tickets and collects fines, to the DMV about when tickets are paid off.
Gabel said this week the cases involve about 600 individuals convicted of the crime since a change in state law took effect in July of 2014.
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