Lake Oswego police officers didn't have reasonable suspicion to ask a Portland Timbers player to a perform field sobriety test while they were investigating an October crash involving his teammate, the player's attorneys contend.
Evidence against 32-year-old Liam Ridgewell should be suppressed because officers knew he wasn't involved in the crash nor a witness to it and should have been allowed to leave, lawyers Christine Mascal and Sean Riddell claim in a motion filed in Lake Oswego Municipal Court.
But instead, the officers continued to detain Ridgewell and gave him a field sobriety test without any physical evidence that he committed a crime, his attorneys contend in the court filing.