Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1/28/1998

Powers v. Commonwealth

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426 Mass. 534
694 N.E.2d 324
1998 Mass. LEXIS 25

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holding that suspension of license following alcohol-related accident under statute permitting suspension based on driver’s “immediate threat to public safety” is not punishment under Hudson for double jeopardy purposes
Massachusetts has common-law and statutory protections equivalent to those provided for in the double jeopardy clause
indefinite suspension of driver’s license by Registrar of Motor Vehicles under G. L. c. 90, § 22 [a], is nonpunitive, civil sanction that does not implicate double jeopardy principles
acknowledging but declining to address in detail each Mendoza-Martinez factor
revocation of a driver’s license is non-punitive and civil
acknowledging, although not fully applying, Mendoza-Martinez factors

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Judges: Lynch

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