Opinion ID: 1741679
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Heading: applicability of hansen

Text: We have previously analyzed whether the administrative revocation of a driver's license pursuant to Neb.Rev.Stat. § 60-6,206 (Reissue 1993) constitutes punishment for purposes of double jeopardy. State v. Hansen, 249 Neb. 177, 542 N.W.2d 424 (1996). In Hansen, the defendant's license was revoked after he submitted to a chemical test, the results of which were over the legal limit of.10 grams of alcohol per 210 liters of breath. The defendant was already facing criminal prosecution for the same incident of driving under the influence at the time his license was revoked. The defendant filed a plea in bar, asserting that the administrative license revocation constituted punishment and, thus, that the criminal prosecution was barred by double jeopardy. Relying on United States v. Halper, 490 U.S. 435, 109 S.Ct. 1892, 104 L.Ed.2d 487 (1989), we held that `under the Double Jeopardy Clause a defendant who already has been punished in a criminal prosecution may not be subjected to an additional civil sanction to the extent that the second sanction may not fairly be characterized as remedial, but only as a deterrent or retribution.' (Emphasis in original.) State v. Hansen, 249 Neb. at 188-89, 542 N.W.2d at 432. After Hansen was decided, the U.S. Supreme Court disavowed Halper and reaffirmed its previously established analysis of multiple punishment under the Double Jeopardy Clause, as set out in United States v. Ward, 448 U.S. 242, 100 S.Ct. 2636, 65 L.Ed.2d 742 (1980), supplemented by Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez, 372 U.S. 144, 83 S.Ct. 554, 9 L.Ed.2d 644 (1963). Hudson v. U.S., ___ U.S. ___, 118 S.Ct. 488, 139 L.Ed.2d 450 (1997). Since the protection provided by Nebraska's double jeopardy clause is coextensive with that provided by the U.S. Constitution's, we conclude that the analysis in Hansen, which was based on that in Halper, no longer applies to administrative license revocation. Instead, we will apply the two-part Kennedy-Ward analysis, as applied in Hudson.