Castillo-Solis v. State

Nahmias, Justice.

This Court granted Appellant Fernando Castillo-Solis’s application for interlocutory appeal challenging the trial court’s ruling that OCGA § 40-5-20 (a), which prohibits driving in Georgia without a valid driver’s license, is constitutional as applied to him. Many of Appellant’s constitutional challenges are premised on his incorrect interpretation of OCGA § 40-5-20 (a) as including a “retroactive amnesty” provision; as properly construed, the statute does not allow a person who has been cited for driving without a valid license to avoid guilt by later obtaining a Georgia…