Best v. State, Department of Transportation

Best appeals from the circuit court’s judgment affirming the amended order of the Division of Motor Vehicles suspending for six months Best’s probationary license to drive. We reverse on the ground that the State did not afford Best the requirements of procedural due process in that it failed to promulgate ascertainable standards for the exercise of administrative discretion in determining the length of license suspensions.

Even though the six-month license suspension has expired, we do not dismiss this appeal as being moot. The “great weight of authority supports the proposition that an…