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IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALS OF TENNESSEE AT NASHVILLE NOVEMB ER SESSION, 1997

FILED
February 4, 1998

STATE OF TENNESSEE, Appellee,

VS. STACY LYNN COLLIER, Appe llant.

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Cecil W. Crowson Appellate Court Clerk C.C.A. NO. 01C01-9701-CC-00022

WILLIAMSON COUNTY HON . DON ALD P . HARR IS JUDGE (DUI)

ON APPEAL FROM THE JUDGMENT OF THE CIRCUIT COURT OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY

FOR THE APPELLANT: VANESSA P. BRYAN Assistant Public Defender P.O. Box 68 Franklin, TN 37065

FOR THE APPELLEE: JOHN KNOX WALKUP Attorney General and Reporter JANIS L. TURNER Assistant Attorney General 425 5th Avenu e North Nashville, TN 37243 JOE D. BAUGH, JR. District Attorney General JOHN BARRINGER Assistant District Attorney General P.O. Box 937 Franklin, TN 37065-0937

OPINION FILED ________________________ AFFIRMED DAVID H. WELLES, JUDGE

OPINION
The Defe ndan t, Stacy Lynn C ollier, ap peals as of rig ht purs uant to Rule 3 of the Tennessee Rules of Appellate Procedure. She was convicted by a

Williamson County jury of driving un der the influence of an intoxicant ("DU I").1 The trial court sen tenced her to thirty da ys in the co unty jail, all suspended except for forty-eight hours, and eleven months and twenty-nine days of supervised probation. The trial co urt also im posed a fine of thre e hund red fifty dollars ($350), revoke d the D efend ant's d river's license for one year, and ordered that she use an ignition interlock during he r probationary period.2 In this appeal, the Defendant argues that the evidence was legally insufficient to support her conviction, that the trial court erred in admitting the result of an Intoximeter 3000 breath test, and that the trial court erred in admitting testimo ny concern ing a horizontal gaze nystagmus ("HGN") field sobriety test. After reviewing the record, we conclude that the Defendant's issues provide no basis for the reversal of her conviction . Accord ingly, we affirm the judgm ent of the tria l court.

The State's proof at trial consisted of the testimony of two officers of the Fairview, Tennessee Police Department. Officer Joe Singer testified that he had been a police o fficer for two and one-half years and had received specialized training in DUI detection. At approximately 4:30 a.m. on the morning of May 14, 1995, Singer was driving his marked patrol car north on Highway 96 in Fairview. He observe d a vehicle traveling tow ard him with the left fron t tire on the center

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