Joanna S. Robinson v. State of Indiana

In a compelling and persuasive opinion the Court of Appeals determined that evidence seized after a traffic stop should not have been admitted into evidence. The majority takes issue with this determination. But in my view the Court of Appeals got it exactly right.

The majority declares that the trial court “weighted] Deputy Claeys’s testimony [that Robinson drove off the roadway] more heavily than the video evidence.” Op. at 367. Indeed, it would have been entirely within the trial court’s province to do so; and had it done so that would be the end of the matter. But the record reflects that…