Pruitt v. State

OPINION

SULLIVAN, Senior Judge.

This interlocutory appeal was certified to this court by the trial court and we accepted jurisdiction. Donald L. Pruitt (Pruitt) was charged with Operating a Motor Vehicle after his driving privileges had been forfeited for life, a Class C felony. 1 In this appeal Pruitt challenges the denial of his pre-trial Motion to Suppress.

The offense charged emanated from a traffic stop conducted in a private parking lot in the city of Martinsville. The officer making the charge had been on routine patrol in his marked police vehicle sometime after midnight when he saw…