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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