Dillaman v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing

OPINION BY

Judge COHN.

The instant case is an appeal from the decision of a Crawford County Court of Common Pleas order that sustained Jon Francis Dillaman’s (Licensee) appeal from the Department of Transportation’s (DOT) suspension of his driver’s license. For the reasons that follow, we reverse the trial court.

*100On March 25, 2000, Licensee was pulled over by police in Harrison County, Mississippi for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicating liquor.1 At that time, he was eighteen years old. On January 24, 2001, he was convicted of this crime in a Mississippi court.…