Do Missouri Municipal Court drunk driving convictions count as prior offenses?
It depends. In some cases, they do not, but the Missouri legislature is moving to close this “loophole”, so by the time you read this the law may have changed. The Missouri state supreme court had decided earlier this year that they did not count under the existing law, so the legislature is likely to change the law soon. The Missouri Supreme Court ruled that these convictions are ineligible as prior offenses for perfectly legitimate legal reasons – in these cases, the defendants where not given legal counsel, and never waived their right to counsel.
