Dixon v. State

OPINION

On September 6, 1985, a Nevada highway patrolman received a report that a green pickup truck was being driven erratically on U.S. 395. Shortly thereafter, a green pickup truck barely missed striking the trooper’s patrol car, which was parked off the roadway with its overhead lights on. The truck was weaving within both traffic lanes, going sixty-five miles per hour in a fifty mile per hour zone. The trooper stopped the vehicle; its driver, appellant Dixon, stumbled and almost fell when he got out. Dixon swayed from side to side while standing, and walked “as if he were on a tightrope.”…