Catchword: scarlet letter

Filed under: English, Automobiles & Transportation, Crime & Prisons

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Two senators unveiled a measure Thursday that would require drivers convicted of three drunken-driving offenses in a five-year period, or four within 10 years, to purchase license plates with a number code that police could use to identify them as convicted drunken drivers.…In Ohio, the plates are known as “scarlet letters.”

Article or document title:
“DWI plates would ID offenders” (URL)

Author:
Amanda Erickson

Article, document, publication, web site:
Press & Sun-Bulletin

Publishing location:
Binghamton, N.Y.

Dateline:
Albany, N.Y.

Date of publication:
June 17, 2005

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