Ex Parte Tisdale

On November 6, 2006, this Court granted Deborah R. Tisdale's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Court of Criminal Appeals. We now reverse and remand.

On the morning of July 16, 2004, Tisdale was driving to work when she passed an automobile traveling in her lane. The road on which Tisdale was traveling was a two-lane state highway, and, at the place where she passed the other automobile, the speed limit was 55 miles per hour. David Ratliff, an Alabama state trooper, was traveling in the opposite direction on the same highway and, after witnessing Tisdale pass the slower automobile, he…