STATE v. O'BRIEN

No. 91-207.

609 A.2d 981 (1992)

STATE of Vermont v. Thomas J. O'BRIEN.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

April 3, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Sorrell, Chittenden County State's Atty., and Pamela Hall Johnson, Deputy State's Atty., Burlington, for plaintiff-appellee.

Jarvis & Kaplan, Burlington, for defendant-appellant.

Before ALLEN, C.J., and GIBSON, DOOLEY, MORSE and JOHNSON, JJ.


DOOLEY, Justice.

Defendant's motor vehicle operator's license was suspended pursuant to the Vermont administrative suspension law, 23 V.S.A. § 1205. Although he uses a scattergun approach to this appeal, we can reduce the issues he raises to three: (1) the administrative suspension proceeding is essentially criminal and so requires the procedural trappings of a criminal trial; (2) this Court's implementation of the administrative suspension proceeding through...

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