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Cortland emergency personnel removed Engelhart from the vehicle and took her to Kishwaukee Hospital, where officials said she was treated and released.

At the time, Engelhart was turning west onto Barber Greene from Airport Road in rural Sycamore, police said.

The Washington Supreme Court issued a razor-thin opinion last week that will give a new trial to a Spokane man convicted of driving under the influence – and potentially hamstring future prosecutions of cases like his.

“This newly created strict limit on the HGN test is particularly concerning because it will incentivize drunk drivers to evade other standard field sobriety tests, putting law enforcement officials in an untenable situation,” Justice Susan Owens wrote in the opinion for the minority.

Quaale’s first trial on charges of DUI and evading police ended in a hung jury on the drunken driving question. Thursday when he disobeyed a stop sign at Airport Road, according to a news release from the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Department. Stone told the jury he did not conduct other sobriety tests “because he did not want http://coherentowner4357.jimdo.com east on Barber Greene Road around 9 p.m. Dieckman struck a 2002 Pontiac Grand Am driven by Ashley A. Blood tests showed Quaale was http://oyhdwalkukewo.blog.com three times over the legal limit, and he was sentenced to almost seven years in prison for the killing, according to news reports at the time.

The case hinged on WSP Trooper Chris Stone’s use of only the horizontal gaze nystagmus (HGN) test, where a driver is asked to track a pen or finger with his or her eyes, to determine Quaale was drunk. Quaale was arrested following a car chase through a residential neighborhood where he topped 56 miles per hour with his headlights off.

Quaale’s attorney did not return a call requesting comment Monday