By: Derek Hawkins//November 2, 2016//
WI Court of Appeals – District II
Case Name: County of Fond Du Lac v. Blade N. Ramthun
Case No.: 2016AP825
Officials: Neubauer, C.J.
Focus: OWI – Suppression of Evidence
Blade N. Ramthun appeals from a judgment entered after a stipulated trial finding him guilty of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant (OWI) and operating a motor vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration (PAC), both as first offenses. Ramthun contends that the circuit court should have suppressed evidence recovered during an illegal detention. Specifically, he argues that when a deputy sheriff transported him from the scene of the traffic stop to a gas station three or four miles away in order to administer field sobriety tests, the temporary seizure was transformed into an illegal arrest. We disagree and affirm.