State v. Kirbabas

Eldridge, Judge.

On June 7, 1997, Margaret Kirbabas, defendant-appellee and appellant, was observed weaving in her car on Towne Lake Parkway by Officer David Wooldridge of the Woodstock Police Department and was stopped. Officer Wooldridge saw the defendant cross completely the right lane marker and then drift to the left to partially cross the centerline; such weaving and defendant’s slow speed raised Wooldridge’s articulable suspicion that the defendant could be impaired.

Upon beginning his investigatory stop, Wooldridge smelled about the defendant the odor of alcohol and observed a slightly…