Ferrelli v. Department of Transportation

In Ferrelli v. Department of Transportation, 783 A.2d 891 (Pa. Cmwlth. 2001), petition for allowance of appeal denied, 570 Pa. 691, 808 A.2d 574 (2002), Pennsylvania licensees who had individually pled no contest to driving under the influence of alcohol in West Virginia later had their driver's licenses suspended by DOT. Most generally stated, we held that the licensees' no contest pleas in West Virginia were convictions under the Compact, and that Pennsylvania was not required to give full faith and credit to orders of a West Virginia court stating that the no contest pleas were not convictions.