Wells v. State

OPINION

MANNHEIMER, Judge.

Randy L. Wells was charged with felony driving while intoxicated (DWI) and driving while his license was suspended (DWLS). Wells asked the superior court to suppress the statements he had made to the arresting officer. Wells also asked the superior court to suppress the result of the breath test he took at the police station, plus the arresting officer’s observations of Wells’s performance on various field sobriety tests; all of this evidence, Wells argued, was the fruit of his illegally obtained statements.

On the morning set for Wells’s trial, the superior court held…