Commonwealth v. Granberg

CRAIG, President Judge.

The Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing, appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County which sustained the appeal of the licensee Donna Granberg from a one-year license suspension imposed by the department.

The issue in this case is whether the trial court erred in permitting the licensee to make a collateral attack on the underlying criminal conviction during the civil license suspension proceeding. We reverse.

In a notice dated May 13, 1992, the department informed the licensee that her operating privileges would be…