People v. Bruni, 2010 Ill. App. LEXIS 1274 (2nd Dist. 2010)
By David B. Franks-Straus
Traffic Laws and Courts,
March 2011
The Appellate Court concluded that defendant’s admission that he had consumed a beer, together with the officer’s testimony “was sufficient to justify the relatively minor intrusion of requesting that a properly stopped motorist step out of a vehicle to perform field sobriety tests."
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