APPLETON (WLUK) – What can police do when they need a warrant overnight but can’t get ahold of an on-call judge? The Wisconsin State Patrol says it will use a ruling this week where a drunken driving conviction was overturned as a training tool.
The case started with a traffic stop nearly six years ago.
Brandon Taff was pulled over at 1:13 a.m. on May 10, 2019, in Grand Chute by the Wisconsin State Patrol. He told them he had had five beers at a Green Bay-area casino, but stopped drinking about 90 minutes before he was pulled over. After a field sobriety test, he was arrested…