Woolman v. Department of Motor Vehicles

How courts have described this case

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• failure to blow hard enough for breathalyzer test constitutes a nonverbal act amounting to refusal in the absence of any showing of inability to comply
• inability to produce sufficient air to activate machine, without evidence supporting inability, deemed refusal to take test
• failure to give adequate breath sample is a refusal where motorist presents no evidence excusing her inability to comply
• licensee “placed the mouthpiece of the breathalyzer in her mouth and ‘gave a little puff,’ but the machine did not operate.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).