State v. Green, 99-156.
Decision Date | 08 December 1999 |
Docket Number | No. 99-156.,99-156. |
Parties | The STATE of Florida, Appellant, v. Otis GREEN, Appellee. |
Court | Florida District Court of Appeals |
Robert A. Butterworth, Attorney General, and Barbara A. Zappi, Assistant Attorney General, for appellant.
Bennett H. Brummer, Public Defender, and Roy A. Heimlich, Assistant Public Defender, for appellee.
Before JORGENSON, LEVY, and GREEN, JJ.
The state appeals an order granting the defendant's motion to dismiss and reducing the charge of driving as a "Habitual Traffic Offender" to driving with a suspended license. We reverse and remand.
On August 30, 1989, Otis Green, the defendant, was classified as a habitual traffic offender, and his driver's license was revoked. The defendant's record listed the projected expiration of the revocation as August 29, 1994, five years from the revocation. On February 4, 1998, the defendant was charged with unlawful driving as a habitual traffic offender in violation of section 322.34(5), Florida Statutes. The defendant filed a Motion to Dismiss arguing that his status as a habitual traffic offender expired on August 29, 1994, even though he never sought reinstatement of his driving privilege. The trial court granted the motion and reduced the charge to driving with a suspended license.
The trial court erred in reducing the charge. Because the defendant was a habitual traffic offender, his driver's license was revoked, and he was not eligible to be relicensed for a minimum of five years from the date of revocation. Fla. Stat. § 322.27(5) (1997); see Lord v. Davis, 288 So.2d 260, 261 (Fla. 1st DCA 1974)
(. ) Florida Statutes section 322.01(35)(1997) defines revocation as "the termination of a licensee's privilege to drive." Cf. Fla. Stat. § 322.01(39) (1997) ( ) After the revocation period expires, the defendant must petition the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles for restoration of driving privileges, and the department conducts an investigation into the fitness of the petitioner. Fla. Stat. § 322.331 (1997).
When the defendant's license was revoked, his driving privileges were terminated, not temporarily withdrawn for the five-year period. When the five-year...
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