State v. Petersen

In this consolidated appeal, the State of Washington seeks reversal of the trial court’s dismissal, on the basis of the defective suspension of the defendants’ driver’s licenses, i.e., without notice and opportunity for hearing on the question of their liability for accidents in which they were involved, of habitual traffic offender proceedings against James Alan Petersen, Gary Lynn Malliot, and Arthur Frank Bamer. We agree with the State that the court should not have considered whether the licenses had been improperly suspended when it heard the habitual traffic offender proceedings, and we…