Montana Supreme Court

State v. C. Lapointe

June 17, 20252025 MT 124

Summary

The court affirmed the denial of Lapointe’s motion to dismiss the felony DUI enhancement. It held that California’s DUI statute was sufficiently similar to Montana’s 2020 DUI statutes because, although California’s statute reaches driving on private property, the statutes need not be identical and the record did not show that most California DUI convictions involved conduct that would not constitute a Montana DUI.