{"id":25154,"date":"2017-01-03T00:01:32","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25154"},"modified":"2016-12-31T19:20:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-01T00:20:17","slug":"oh9-highly-erratic-driving-with-a-near-head-on-collision-and-glassy-bloodshot-eyes-alone-was-rs-for-fst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25154","title":{"rendered":"OH9: Highly erratic driving with a near head-on collision and &#8220;glassy, bloodshot eyes&#8221; alone was RS for FST even without smell of alcohol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video of defendant\u2019s driving shows that he drove entirely into another lane and nearly had an accident with another vehicle. When stopped, he was cooperative, didn\u2019t smell of alcohol, and denied drinking. He did, however, have \u201cglassy, bloodshot eyes, which are often, but not always, an indication of impairment. See State v. Lucking, 12th Dist. Butler No. CA2002-12-303, 2004-Ohio-90, \u00b6 11 (\u2018[W]e find that glassy, bloodshot eyes are generally accepted as classic indicia of intoxication.\u2019). Thus, based on the totality of the circumstances, we conclude that Trooper Ross possessed reasonable suspicion to administer the field sobriety tests in this case.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/9\/2016\/2016-Ohio-8389.pdf\">State v. Hochstetler<\/a>, 2016-Ohio-8389, 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 5240 (9th Dist. Dec. 27, 2016).*<\/p>\n<p>The trial court\u2019s findings of justification for defendant\u2019s stop and then his conviction for DWI was supported by competent evidence and is affirmed. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.supremecourt.ohio.gov\/rod\/docs\/pdf\/9\/2016\/2016-Ohio-8502.pdf\">State v. Curran<\/a>, 2016-Ohio-8502, 2016 Ohio App. LEXIS 5330 (9th Dist. Dec. 30, 2016).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video of defendant\u2019s driving shows that he drove entirely into another lane and nearly had an accident with another vehicle. When stopped, he was cooperative, didn\u2019t smell of alcohol, and denied drinking. He did, however, have \u201cglassy, bloodshot eyes, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=25154\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25154"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25158,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25154\/revisions\/25158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}