Williams v. State ex rel. Department of Public Safety

BRIGHTMIRE, Chief Judge.

The issue raised in this driver’s license revocation case is whether the trial court erroneously concluded that a statutorily mandated unmodifiable one-year revocation was an unconstitutional denial of due process because it deprived the plaintiff of his license without affording him an opportunity to have the revocation judicially modified on the ground of extreme and unusual hardship.

I

The plaintiff-appellee, Monte Williams, was arrested in Perry, Oklahoma, on November 6, 1988, for suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol. He voluntarily submitted to a…