Legal Opinion
Jacobs v. Director, N.H. Division of Motor Vehicles
Supreme Court of New Hampshire
Decided May 16, 2003No. 2002-317PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtDuggan, J.
The defendant, the director of the division of motor vehicles (division), appeals an order of the Superior Court {McHugh, J.) vacating the driver’s license suspension imposed on the plaintiff, Lori Jacobs. The division argues that the trial court improperly considered the validity of the underlying traffic stop and wrongly decided the propriety of the division’s drawing an adverse inference from Jacobs’ failure to testify. We reverse and remand.
The trial court found the following facts. On September 22,2001, Officer John Petrosh of the Exeter Police Department received a dispatch from the…
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