Domingo Soto: Because Freedom Isn't Dumb

ALABAMA DUI LAWS CALLED RICKETY
In 1997, the Legislature amended Alabama's DUI law to make a fourth DUI conviction a felony. But technical flaws quickly became evident, prompting numerous appeals court challenges as judges and lawyers tried to grope through how various questions should be handled. And a big new problem, saying that out-of-state convictions don't count toward the stiffer penalties, was opened by the Alabama Supreme Court this spring "
(Mobile Register, unearthed by W. Anderson Ward)