State v. Maready

NEWBY, Justice.

This case, which involves an investigatory traffic stop and the subsequent criminal trial, presents three issues. First, we determine whether the law enforcement officers who conducted the traffic stop had reasonable suspicion to justify their detention of defendant. Next, we resolve whether the trial court committed plain error in its instructions to the jury regarding the purposes for which they could consider defendant’s prior convictions. Finally, we decide whether it was error for the trial court to admit into evidence prior convictions against defendant that were more…