Dana v. Secretary of State

COLLINS, J.,

with whom WATHEN, C.J., joins, dissenting.

For the reasons cited by the Court, I respectfully dissent.

While I concede that the Court’s literal and formalistic reading of the pertinent statutory sections may in fact be accurate, I cannot join in the opinion that, in my view, does violence to our well-established rule of effectuating the intent of the Legislature.

The legislative intent behind the OUI statutes is apparent. The progressively longer periods of license suspension mandated by the Legislature for each additional OUI conviction graphically evince the Legislature’s intent to…