Jerry S. Straub v. Pat S. Reed, Commissioner, W. Va. DMV

“Justice shall be administered without ... delay.” W.Va. Const. art. III, § 17. That commendable constitutional mandate was heinously ignored in this ease. It took the DMV almost two years after the defendant was arrested and charged with DUI to enter its administrative revocation. Thereafter, it took the Office of Administrative Hearings (“QAH”) nearly one year to affirm the administrative revocation. All of these delays have caused this defendant, who was arrested in 2011, to live with the specter of a pending driver’s license revocation for the better part of a decade; This is completely…