Legal Opinion
State of Tennessee v. David Dwayne Bell
Tennessee Supreme Court
Decided February 20, 2014No. E2011-01241-SC-R11-CDPublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WILLIAM C. KOCH, JR., J.,
delivered the opinion of the Court,
in which GARY R. WADE, C.J., JANICE M. HOLDER, CORNELIA A. CLARK, and SHARON G. LEE, JJ., joined.
This appeal involves the weight that should be given to a motorist’s performance on field sobriety tests in determining whether probable cause existed to arrest the motorist for driving under the influence of an intoxicant (“DUI”). A law enforcement officer stopped a motorist who was driving in the wrong direction on a divided highway in Sevier County. Another officer administered several field sobriety tests, and arrested the…
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