Butler v. Groce

This Court’s 1987 opinion in Division of Driver Licensing v. Bergmann, Ky., 740 S.W.2d 948 (1987), held that the applicable period of drivers license revocation was not governed by characterization of the offense as a first, second or third offense, but by the actual number of convictions sustained during the relevant time period. By this approach, the offenses are simply counted to determine the applicable duration of license suspensión and the court’s characterization of the offense as first, second or third, etc., is irrelevant.

Evidently, the General Assembly was not satisfied with its…