State v. Manocchio

{¶ 1} In this discretionary appeal from the Eighth District, we determine whether a trial court may grant limited driving privileges nine years into a lifetime license suspension, notwithstanding former R.C. 4510.54(A), which prohibited the modification of a lifetime suspension for the first 15 years. The appellant, the state of Ohio, advances one proposition of law: “A trial court is without authority to modify a lifetime driver’s license suspension where defendant fails to meet the statutory criteria providing for modification as set forth under R.C. 4510.54.”

{¶ 2} At oral argument, the…