Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

State of Maine v. Kenneth Rhoades

March 10, 20262026 ME 23

Summary

The court affirmed Rhoades's OUI conviction, holding that the officer had reasonable articulable suspicion to stop his vehicle based on a trained visual estimate that Rhoades was driving substantially over the speed limit. It also upheld admission of the Intoxilyzer result, concluding that the State sufficiently established reliability and that machine-generated breath-test data did not implicate the Confrontation Clause. The court further held that the late disclosure of impeachment information did not warrant a discovery sanction because Rhoades showed no prejudice. There are no separate opinions.