State v. Pierce

Defendant, Adam Pierce, appeals from the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained by a state police officer when he stopped defendant’s vehicle. On appeal, defendant argues that it was a violation of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and of Chapter I, Article 11 of the Vermont Constitution * for a police officer to stop defendant in Ms automoMle and question Mm as a witness to another person’s driving under the influence of intoxicating liquor (DUI). We affirm.

After midnight, a state police officer who had just exited from the south lane of…