Opinion ID: 1925781
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Heading: Effect of Conviction

Text: .... (b) [T]he licensing authority in the home state shall give such effect to the conduct as is provided by the laws of the home state. See 2A Neb.Rev.Stat. app. § 1-113. Relying in part upon this court's four part analysis in Jacobson v. Higgins, 243 Neb. 485, 500 N.W.2d 558 (1993), the Court of Appeals concluded that under the Compact, the Wyoming proceeding could be used by the department as the basis for the revocation of Strong's commercial driver's license issued in Nebraska if certain requirements were met. See Strong v. Neth, No. A-02-292, 2003 WL 21523796 (Neb.App. July 8, 2003) (not designated for permanent publication). Those requirements are as follows: (1) The Wyoming proceeding met the Compact's definition of a conviction, (2) the conviction was one which Wyoming law required to be reported to the state licensing authority, (3) the Wyoming abstract contained the information required under the Compact, and (4) Nebraska law provided that Strong's conduct could be used to revoke Strong's commercial driver's license. The Court of Appeals analyzed each of these four requirements. First, referring to Strong's admission that he `sent a fine in lieu of appearing in court' and the language in the abstract that indicated that $130 was allocated to forfeiture, the Court of Appeals concluded that the Wyoming proceeding met the Compact's definition of a conviction. Strong v. Neth, 2003 WL 21523796 at . Second, the Court of Appeals reviewed relevant provisions of Wyoming's driving under the influence laws and determined that the Goshen County Court was required ... to report Strong's conviction to the Wyoming licensing authority. Id. Third, the Court of Appeals examined the abstract and concluded that it contained the information required under the Compact. Finally, based upon Neb.Rev.Stat. § 60-4,168 (Reissue 1998), the Court of Appeals concluded that Strong's conduct in Wyoming could also be used in Nebraska to revoke his commercial driver's license. Section 60-4,168 provides that a person shall be disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle for one year: .... ... Upon a first administrative determination... that such person while driving a commercial motor vehicle in this or any other state ... had a concentration of ... four-hundredths of one gram or more by weight of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of his or her breath.... Based upon this reasoning, the Court of Appeals affirmed the district court's decision sustaining the department's revocation order. Strong v. Neth, supra. Strong filed a petition for further review, which we granted. We affirm.