State v. Pettit

LARSON, Justice.

The issue on this appeal is whether the trial court, proceeding under Iowa Code section 321.281(9)(a), properly ordered a six-year revocation of the defendant’s drivers license for a third drunk-driving violation. We affirm.

This defendant appeared before the district court and entered a plea of guilty to a charge of operating while intoxicated in violation of Iowa Code section 321.281. The court determined that the defendant had been guilty of two prior violations of section 321.281 — one in 1959 and the other in 1966 — and ordered his operator’s license revoked for a period…