from the roadways. Second, the proceeding protects against an erroneous deprivation of the driving privilege. However, "license revocation proceedings are civil in nature; the protections afforded criminal defendants do not apply. The purpose of a revocation hearing is to determine if, notwithstanding the violation, the licensee should be allowed the use of the public highways." Kirke, 743 P.2d at 20; see also Charnes v. Olona, 743 P.2d 36, 38 (Colo.1987) ("[Rlevocation hearings are civil proceedings...."). While revoking a driver's license surely is a sanction for the driver, the General Assembly did not intend for that to be this section's main purpose. The statute expressly considers a driver's license to be a "privilege." See Deutschendorf v. People, 920 P.2d 53, 60 (Colo.1996) (<HOLDING>). To ensure that this privilege is not
holding probation revocation is not a stage of a criminal prosecution holding that the suspension or revocation of a drivers license is not a sanction which once imposed precludes the application of criminal sanctions holding that a sanction which constitutes the revocation of a privilege voluntarily granted is characteristically free of the punitive criminal element holding individuals who had been granted the privilege to enroll were not students between the time such privilege was granted and classes began without any reference to the cfr and the secretarys implementation of the act recognizing privilege