State v. St. Jean

The state seeks review of an order of the lower court suppressing evidence seized incident to a traffic stop, concluding that the stop was illegal because there was no reasonable suspicion that a traffic violation had occurred. We affirm.

By stipulation, the only evidence presented to the court at the hearing was the arresting officer’s investigative report, which set forth that the officer stopped the defendant’s car because he had “observed the tag on the vehicle was obscured by. a[sic] ornament around the perimeter of the tag making the county name not visible.” This was asserted to be a…