Davis v. South Carolina Department of Public Safety

STILWELL, Judge:

The South Carolina Department of Public Safety (Department) appeals from a circuit court order which determined that the plain meaning of the phrase “term of imprisonment” as used in the felony DUI statute1 denotes “actual duration of the offender’s incarceration.”2 Department also appeals the trial court’s ruling that multiple convictions arising out of a single violation (such as when more than one individual is harmed by the conduct) of the felony DUI statute result in only one three-year suspension of Davis’s driver’s license. We affirm.3

FACTS

On January 8, 1991, Davis pled…