State v. Amelio

In this case we decide whether a telephone call to a police dispatcher by a seventeen-year-old reporting that her father was drunk and driving provided a constitutional basis to stop defendant’s vehicle. We hold that under the circumstances presented there was reasonable and articulable suspicion of an offense to support a constitutional motor vehicle stop by the police.

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The parties stipulated to the facts for the purpose of deciding defendant Paul Amelio’s motion to suppress the evidence resulting from the motor vehicle stop. Specifically, the parties accepted the facts as presented in…