MINEOLA – Finding that “sympathy has its limits” when it comes to the overburdened Nassau County Attorney’s office, a judge has granted a motion to dismiss filed by the defendant in a DWI vehicle forfeiture case where the county failed to enter a default judgment within the time limits.

The decision is apparently one of very few cases regarding a challenge to the DWI vehicle forfeiture law in which Nassau County Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a defendant seeking the return of a vehicle seized as a result of a drunken driving charge.