State v. George Joseph Besaw, Jr.

LANSING, Judge.

George Joseph Besaw, Jr. appeals from his conviction of misdemeanor driving under the influence with an excessive alcohol concentration of .20 or above. Besaw contends that the magistrate court erred in its pretrial rulings concerning the admissibility of field sobriety tests and the breath alcohol concentration test. We affirm.

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BACKGROUND

In the early morning horn’s of January 16, 2011, an Idaho State Police trooper stopped a vehicle driven by Besaw for failing to signal and failing to maintain its lane of travel. As the trooper spoke with Besaw, he detected the odor of an…