People v. Wein

On February 18, 1967, defendant, a Michigan resident, while driving an automobile, was stopped on a street in Detroit by a uniformed Detroit police officer for making a prohibited left-hand turn. Upon the officer’s request, he produced a State of Michigan driver’s license which had expired on defendant’s last birthday, July 6, 1966. In consequence, he was charged, in the recorder’s court of the city of Detroit, traffic and ordinance division, with the offense of operating a motor vehicle without a valid operator’s license in his immediate possession.

A jury trial was had and defendant was…