Legal Opinion
Henry v. Edmisten
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided February 18, 1986No. 550PA84PublishedCited by 36 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EXUM, Justice.
The Safe Roads Act of 1983, 1983 N.C. Sess. Laws ch. 435, provides for a mandatory, prehearing ten-day license revocation for drivers charged with an impaired driving offense who fail a breath analysis test. Id. at § 14 (codified at N.C.G.S. § 20-16.5 (1983)). The questions presented by this appeal are whether this statute violates (1) the Due Process and Equal Protection Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and (2) the corresponding Law of the Land and Equal Protection Clauses of Article I, section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution. Because…
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