People v. Russum

The Trial Judge correctly denied defendant’s motion to suppress the marijuana, the basis for the conviction. In the nighttime two State Police officers stopped defendant’s automobile, driven by him, because its tail light was not lit. They performed a routine inspection of the exterior of the vehicle and found that two of the tires were unsafe. The Trial Judge found upon sufficient evidence that the police then had defendant open the trunk of his vehicle so that they could see whether he had spare tires that could be used to replace the unsafe ones and whether the tail light could be made…