Lock v. State
Annotate this CaseIndiana's motor vehicle statutes provide a carve-out through which individuals whose driving privileges are suspended may still commute, provided the device they use to do so meets certain requirements. One requirement is that the maximum design speed of such a device may not exceed twenty-five miles per hour. Defendant in this case was charged with operating a motor vehicle as a habitual traffic violator. The only evidence admitted at trial as to the above requirement was that Defendant was traveling forty-three miles per hour on a flat, dry surface. The trial court found Defendant guilty as charged and revoked his driving privileges for life. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) the statutory scheme was not unconstitutionally vague; and (2) on the basis of a stipulation that Defendant was traveling forty-three miles per hour, and in the face of no rebuttal evidence, it was impossible to claim that no reasonable fact-finder could find beyond a reasonable doubt that Defendant had a maximum design speed in excess of twenty-five miles per hour.
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