Gordon v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

It was early morning in Hopkins County, during the middle of 2002, when Sheriff’s Deputy Johnny Williams received a dispatch call to watch for a tractor-trailer truck being driven erratically westbound on Interstate 30. Williams spotted the truck and watched it weave and cross over both the “fog line” and the “center line” several times. After stopping the truck, Williams noticed that its driver, Mickey Lee Gordon, smelled strongly of alcohol, had slurred speech, and could not stand without swaying. Williams asked Gordon to perform two field sobriety…