State v. Taylor

DUFRESNE, Active Retired Justice.

The defendant, Dawrence Taylor, was convicted in Superior Court, Franklin County, of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicating liquor in violation of 29 M.R.S.A. § 1312. 1 Taylor appeals on the ground that the initial investigatory stop of his vehicle by the arresting officer was not justifiable under 4th-14th Amendment strictures as outlined in Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 1880, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), in that the officer could not point to any specific and articulable facts which, taken together with rational…