State v. Hammonds

The state challenges a trial court order suppressing statements made by defendants after the car in which they were traveling was pulled over for a traffic infraction. Specifically, the state contends that, because the officer who stopped defendants reasonably suspected that they had committed or had agreed to commit the crimes of prostitution and promoting prostitution, he was authorized to expand the scope of the traffic stop to investigate those crimes. Hence, the trial court erred in suppressing the statements obtained as a result of the expansion of the traffic stop. We agree.1

Although…