Rita Dolores Illi v. Commissioner of Public Safety

OPINION

ROSS, Judge.

We must decide whether an officer’s use of his squad car’s, spotlight constituted a seizure. An officer approached a car that was stopped in a strip mall parking lot after midnight. The officer arrested the driver for drunk driving, the driver refused a breath test, and the commissioner of public safety revoked her license. The driver appeals the district court’s order affirming the commissioner’s revocation decision. We affirm because we reject the driver’s argument that the officer seized her without reasonable suspicion when he illuminated her car with his spotlight…