Worthless media.
This isn’t unique to tenn. And it’s not new either. It all started when MADD demaded that cops confiscate the license of any and all suspected of drunk driving BEFORE gettin their due process.
To do that legally, states had to make the DMV grant powers to cops to act on behalf of the DMV at the time of the citation. Judges and lawyers get cut out of the loop. The DMV actually has the authority to recall any license they issue(thats all of them, no one else has the authority to issue a drivers license) to anyone it chooses. Laws be damned. Judges have no say in it.
He should do what every drunk driver in WV seems to do when their license gets revoked, trot across the border to Ohio or PA and get licensed in that state using a friends address...
If only legislators were personally liable for the laws they pass...
The founders must be turning over in their graves.
A little off topic, but the one that gets me is when a parent gets behind on child support, often through a job loss, the state yanks their driver’s license. Where’s the logic in that? Damned hard to find a job even in a great economy with out a valid license.
He kills a girl by being irresponsible and he is inconvenienced by having to get a ride to school.
My sympathy glands must be malfunctioning.
I have always had a problem with the so called driving “privilege”. If a person pays taxes, and buys a car, who is to say they don’t have a RIGHT to drive on a public road after proving they are competent to do so safely? For punitive measures, fines could be progressive. This would also increase revenue to the coffers, which is the state’s goal to begin with. For example, first offense DUI, mandatory jail time and a ridiculous fine, and for each subsequent offense it doubles. After the second one, you will either behave or go bankrupt. The same for speeding. If the fine for third offense in 12 months speeding was $100 per mile per our over the posted speed, do you think you would slow down?
I’m not a lawyer, but it’s a reasonable assumption that if the Dept of Safety can’t show that they took the necessary legal steps to revoke the license and they don’t recognize the authority of the court that did... the license wasn’t in fact revoked and is still valid.