People v. Sweet

Opinion

STONE (S. J.), P. J.

May a statute which increases punishment on a new drunk driving conviction where the defendant has incurred prior convictions for that offense within seven years be applied to prior convictions entered when five years was the maximum period in which prior convictions could be used for that purpose? We find that it may. Defendants Sweet and Crook appealed to the superior court appellate department from the municipal court’s denial of their challenges to use of prior drunk driving convictions to increase their punishment on the present convictions of Vehicle Code…