Opinion ID: 2514039
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Snyder's License Revocation Case

Text: The Department of Public Safety revoked Snyder's license based on his refusal to submit to a breath test; Hearing Officer Kathy Kutchins considered the evidence and affirmed the revocation. The hearing officer concluded, based on testimony and the videotape of Snyder's breath tests, that Snyder did not appear to be in pain but rather that he had no intention of providing a proper breath sample. She also noted that Snyder never verbally refused the breath test, he simply refused to follow directions on how to provide a breath sample. Snyder requested reconsideration and submitted additional case law regarding the defense of subsequent consent, but the hearing officer affirmed the revocation. The hearing officer did not consider the presumption that Snyder would have passed a blood test because at the time of the hearing our decision in Snyder I had not been published. [12] Snyder appealed. Superior Court Judge Charles R. Pengilly found that sufficient evidence beyond any question supported the hearing officer's finding that unwillingness to provide a sample, and not pain arising from a chest injury, kept Snyder from providing a breath sample. Judge Pengilly rejected all of Snyder's legal arguments.