Walk It Through: The Suspended License
A revocation, a quick trip, a stop, and the urge to keep driving.
A driver whose license was revoked by a court order last month decides to drive to the store a few blocks away.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One short trip. Employment and medical hardship permits, ignition interlock permits and second offenses are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- Obstructing a peace officerObstructing, impairing or hindering a peace officer enforcing the law by violence, force, physical interference or an obstacle, a Class I misdemeanor.
- Operating a motor vehicle to avoid arrestFleeing in a vehicle to avoid arrest or a citation, a Class I misdemeanor, and a Class IV felony after a prior conviction or where the flight causes death or injury.
- Resisting arrestTrying to prevent a peace officer from making an arrest by using or threatening force or violence, by means creating a substantial risk of injury, or by resistance that takes substantial force to overcome.
- Arrest without a warrantAn arrest a peace officer may make on reasonable cause to believe the person committed a felony, or a misdemeanor where the person would otherwise escape, may cause injury, may destroy evidence, or committed it in the officer's presence.
- Citation in lieu of arrestA citation issued in place of an arrest. For an offense classified as an infraction, a citation is issued rather than an arrest, apart from the exceptions the law lists.
- InfractionAn offense that is not a crime of any class. Where no other penalty is set, a first offense is a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.
- Reasonable cause to believeThe standard that triggers the duty to report child abuse or neglect, which reaches physicians, nurses, school employees and any other person.
- Implied consentThe consent to a chemical test of blood, breath or urine that every person who operates or controls a motor vehicle in Nebraska is deemed to have given, which an officer with reasonable grounds may require after an arrest.