State v. Stieben

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Rosen, J.:

At about 9:15 in the evening of April 20,2006, Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Keefe Hemel was patrolling on Highway 50 west of Dodge City, Kansas. As he was driving west, he en countered an east-bound car traveling at 51 miles per hour in a 65 miles-per-hour zone. The approaching car drifted toward the “fog line,” or the white right-hand lane marker. Hemel turned around and caught up with the car in order to continue to observe how it was being driven. Over a course of about half a mile, the car crossed the fog line three times. After about 25…