Key legal question
Whether the case qualified as a minor case under Art. 91 SVG despite an earlier DUI conviction marked as deleted.
Extracted holding
No. An earlier relevant conviction still prevented a finding of an unblemished record so long as it had not yet been removed from the criminal register.
Extracted reasoning
For assessing a clean record, the decisive point is removal from the criminal register, not whether the judgment is shown as deleted. Because the prior DUI conviction was still registered at the time of the new offense, the defendant could not be treated as a first offender and a custodial sentence was required.