Plouff v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• explaining that a police officer may generally offer lay opinion testimony to prove a defendant’s intoxication
• stating that the technique is applied properly when the officer follows the standardized procedures outlined in the manual
• explaining that slight variations in administration of nystagmus test do not render testimony regarding results unreliable or inadmissible but may affect weight to be given to testimony
• explaining that slight variations in administration of nystagmus test do not render testimony regarding results unreliable or inadmissible but may affect weight to be given to testimony
• coordination, balance, and mental agility problems exhibited during field sobriety tests are observations grounded in common knowledge
• “Slight variations in the administration of the HGN test do not render the evidence inadmissible or unreliable, but may affect the weight to be given the testimony.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).