McCLAIN v. STATE

No. A97A0793.

487 S.E.2d 471 (1997)

226 Ga. App. 714

McCLAIN v. The STATE.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

June 5, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J.M. Raffauf, Decatur, for appellant.

Ralph T. Bowden, Jr., Solicitor, Michael D. Johnson, W. Cliff Howard, Asst. Solicitors, for appellee.


BEASLEY, Judge.

In appealing his DUI conviction, Stanley McClain claims that the trial court should have suppressed an officer's testimony about McClain's performance on certain field sobriety tests. McClain argues that the officer lacked an articulable suspicion to stop McClain, thus violating his constitutional rights. Because the first possible "stop" occurred after the officer had smelled alcohol on McClain's breath, the judgment is affirmed.

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