State v. Roybal

¶ 26 I respectfully dissent because I believe that under the totality of the circumstances, Sergeant Ledford did not have reasonable suspicion to stop Mr. Roybal.

¶ 27 In order to make a lawful traffic stop, an officer must have reasonable articulable suspicion that the subject of the stop is involved in criminal activity. See State v. Kohl, 2000 UT 35, ¶ 11, 999 P.2d 7. The majority correctly notes that while the articulable facts supporting reasonable suspicion are “most frequently based on an investigating officer’s own observations and inferences,” in some circumstances, an officer may…