Hightower v. Cervantes

Miller, Judge.

The Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) appeals from the trial court’s denial of its motion to dismiss Constantino Cervantes’s petition for judicial review of the suspension of his driver’s license. As Cervantes failed to appeal DPS’s decision within 30 days, we reverse.

In December 1999, Cervantes lost his driver’s license, obtained a replacement license from DPS, but later found his original license. In April 2000, Cervantes’s license was suspended, and in May 2000, he surrendered his original license. See generally OCGA § 40-5-61. In June 2001, after having served what…