Locklear v. State

Smith, Presiding Judge.

A misdemeanor DUI sentence against David Leon Locklear was mistakenly entered and filed in the Superior Court of Barrow County. After the papers were filed, the court clerk forwarded Locklear’s driver’s license to the Department of Public Safety, which suspended it. Locklear now appeals the denial of his plea in bar based on double jeopardy. He claims that his continued prosecution for DUI puts him at risk of multiple punishment for the same offense. Because we find that Locklear was not punished within the meaning of the bar against double jeopardy, we affirm.

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