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Defender General urges clarity on 20-year DWI window as committee weighs counting incident vs. conviction
Summary
At a Feb. 25 Senate Judiciary hearing, the Defender General told the committee the proposed change to how a 20-year DWI recidivism window is measured raises practical questions: counting from the incident date may be fairer to defendants but harder to verify than conviction-to-conviction counting, which is easier for prosecutors to use.
At a Feb. 25 meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Defender General reviewed a proposed change to how the state calculates the 20-year window used to escalate DWI charges and said the office was not strongly opposed but wanted clarity on whether the clock should run from the incident or from the conviction.
“This isn't, this isn't a big concern to the defendant general's office one way or the…
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