"I do not wish to contend"(from Latin); an official statement of plea by the defendant in which he or she neither omits to the charge nor denies it: A nolo contendere plea refers to the admittion to certain facts as specified by the prosecution or an answer of "no contest" by a defendant who does not admit guilt but which subjects him to conviction, as if a guilty plea had been entered, the determination of guilt remaining open in other legal proceedings.