Melissa Ann Lorsung v. Commissioner of Public Safety

Syllabus

Based on the totality of the circumstances—including respondent's admission to drinking three beers and backing her car into a pedestrian in a bar parking lot at closing time—a police officer's request for a preliminary breath test from the respondent was supported by an objectively reasonable suspicion of driving while impaired, which was not dispelled by the existence of other factors that diminished but did not conclusively negate the basis of the reasonable suspicion. Reversed.