Watson v. State

Appellant was convicted of various felonies and misdemeanors. Part of the sentence imposed was suspension of her driver’s license for forty-eight months. None of the offenses were the type of crime for which a trial court is authorized to suspend a driver’s license. The state contends, however, that the felonies involved the use of a motor vehicle in which case, pursuant to section 322.26(3), Florida Statutes (1987), the trial court could send the record of the convictions to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles which would then revoke her driver’s license.

The only connection…