State v. Retherford

Brogan, Judge.

Defendant-appellant, Barbara A. Retherford, appeals from her conviction of drug abuse in the Common Pleas Court of Montgomery County.

The underlying facts of the case are as follows. On June 23, 1992, at 9:13 a.m., Deputy Sandy Debrosse of the Montgomery County Sheriffs Department was operating a routine traffic post/drug interdiction in a marked patrol car on northbound 1-75 along with Deputy Ronald Newsome, who was stationed in another patrol car a few miles north of Deputy Debrosse.

Deputy Debrosse clocked Retherford’s vehicle at seventy-one m.p.h. in a fifty-five m.p.h. speed…