Martin v. Department of Public Safety

|2FOIL, Judge.

This appeal challenges the action of the trial court in issuing an order requiring the State of Louisiana, Department of Public Safety, to produce the live testimony of the arresting officer at an administrative hearing challenging the license suspension of a suspected drunk driver. We hold that plaintiff, who failed to appeal the Department’s suspension of his driving privileges, lacked standing to attack the Department’s use of the arresting officer’s affidavit in lieu of the officer’s live testimony in a license suspension hearing, and we reverse the trial court’s declaratory…