State v. Christopherson

Christopherson appealed the Department of Motor Vehicle’s suspension of his driver’s license to the Eighteenth Judicial District Court in Gallatin County on the basis that the license should not have been suspended under Section 61-8-402(3), MCA, since he did not refuse to submit to a chemical test of blood alcohol content. This is an appeal from the District Court’s order denying his petition for reinstatement of his driver’s license.

Rick Christopherson is a 24-year-old Cut Bank rancher and part-time student at Montana State University. He was arrested, on December 21, 1984, for driving…