The State v. Martinez-Arvealo

DOYLE, Chief Judge.

Gerardo Martinez-Arvealo was charged with driving without a license 1 after a traffic stop precipitated by an officer’s check of the vehicle’s license plate. Martinez-Arvealo filed a motion to suppress, arguing that the officer had no reasonable articulable suspicion to stop him despite the fact that the officer’s license plate check returned information that the owner of the vehicle, who was not the same gender as Martinez-Arvealo, was not a licensed driver. The trial court granted the motion to suppress, and the State appeals this order. For the reasons that follow, we…