ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SATURDAY, December 4, 1993                   TAG: 9312040236
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: DAVID M. POOLE STAFF WRITER
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short


DRUNKEN DRIVER FACES MORE JAIL

A Roanoke County man with four drunken-driving arrests since 1991 - including a fatal motorcycle wreck - faces at least one more year in jail because of multiple traffic convictions.

Stacey Lee Hann, 27, is scheduled to appear in Roanoke County Circuit Court on Jan. 7 on a prosecutor's motion to declare him a habitual traffic offender.

Hann could receive a sentence of between one and five years.

He is already serving a two-year sentence in the Roanoke County/Salem Jail sparked by his conviction in July on his third drunken driving charge in three years.

The conviction led Circuit Judge Kenneth Trabue to revoke Hann's probation from a 1992 involuntary manslaughter conviction stemming from a motorcycle wreck that killed 24-year-old Mildred "Mickey" Smith.

Hann was able to get his license restored in April because his conviction on the manslaughter charge was under appeal.

In October, the Roanoke Times & World-News reported that Hann was able to get his license because of a clerical error in the Roanoke County Circuit Court clerk's office.

That report, however, was based on incorrect information provided to the newspaper.

Circuit Clerk Steven McGraw said there was nothing his office could have done to prevent Hann from getting his driving privileges restored. The state Supreme Court did not notify McGraw that Hann's appeal had been denied until May 19 - three weeks after Hann got his license.


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