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Johnson v. State

Citations

  • 622 A.2d 199
  • 95 Md. App. 561
  • 1993 Md. App. LEXIS 64

How courts have described this case

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  • “Driving on the roads of this State is also not a right, but a privilege.”
  • purpose of license revocation statute is to protect other drivers on the road from those who would drive while intoxicated and to deter drunk drivers
  • administrative per se law has two-pronged purpose—to deter those who would drive drunk, and to reduce fatalities caused by those drunk drivers who drive while awaiting criminal adjudication
  • “We believe ... that Halper leaves undisturbed cases, such as the one at bar, that have found the revocation of voluntarily granted privileges to be civil in nature, not punitive, and merely remedial.”

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Judges: Bloom, Wenner, Davis

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