Mancini v. Secretary of State

SCOLNIK, Justice.

The Secretary of State appeals from a judgment in the Superior Court, York County, granting Michael Mancini’s appeal from the Secretary’s decision to suspend his license. We vacate the judgment.

The relevant facts of this case are as follows. At approximately 10:30 p.m. on the evening of September 6, 1986, Trooper Robert Flint of the Maine State Police stopped a car for speeding. Mancini was the driver. Flint detected an odor of alcohol on Mancini’s breath and noticed that his eyes appeared glazed and bloodshot. When asked if he had been drinking, Mancini replied that the last…