brewer_victoryJames King, at New Times, has the full details from the police report the night in 1988 Jan Brewer rear-ended another car—and the officers who came to the scene thought she was drunk.

She was never charged, for reasons that aren’t clear.

Anyway, here’s King’s account of the report on Brewer’s field sobriety tests:

[T]he officer also described the then-state-senator as having bloodshot, watery eyes, and dilated pupils that reacted poorly to light stimulation.

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According to the report, when asked to stand on one leg, Brewer was “not able to perform the test as instructed.” Instead, Brewer was “swaying back and forth from side to side and front to back heavily.”

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Brewer was then asked to tilt her head back, close her eyes, and touch her finger to her nose. No luck there, either. Brewer didn’t even follow instructions — initially, she failed to close her eyes or tilt her head back, and when she did, her body swayed front to back and side to side as she tried to touch her finger to her nose. Her eyes would flutter when she tried to touch her nose, the report claims.

In the third test, Brewer failed the Rhomberg Modified counting test when she was unable to count from 1001 to 1030.

In Brewer’s fourth field-sobriety F-, the now-governor was unable to maintain her balance when asked to walk in a straight line. She had to stop three times to steady herself and didn’t walk heal-to-toe as instructed. According to the report, she stepped off the line five times in her attempt to walk straight.