Bogart v. Director of Revenue

PAUL M. SPINDEN, Judge.

Even before the director of the Department of Revenue rested her case, the circuit court stopped her presentation of evidence in this driving license suspension case and directed a “verdict” that the license of Garrel R. Bogart be reinstated. The circuit court’s ruling came after a police officer testified that Bogart failed several times to blow into a breath-analyzing machine for as long as ordered but that the machine still gave a digital readout. The director had concluded that Bogart’s failure to blow for the ordered time constituted a refusal to submit to a breath…