State v. Sims

The issue in this felony Driving While Revoked (DWR) case is whether defendant can attack collaterally the validity of a ten-year-old administrative order revoking his driver license. Defendant raised the issue by moving to dismiss the DWR charge and by moving to exclude evidence of that order at his trial on the DWR charge. The trial court denied those motions, concluding that defendant could not attack the order collaterally because he had failed to challenge it in the ten years that the order had been in effect. The Court of Appeals, however, reversed and remanded the case on the ground…