State v. Pinkham

ROBERTS, Justice.

This case is before us for the second time on the State’s pretrial appeal of a suppression order. In this appeal the State contests an order of the District Court (Skow-hegan, Clark, A.R.J.) suppressing defendant Ronald Pinkham’s refusal to take an approved blood alcohol breath test on the basis that he already had taken an unapproved “ALERT” pre-screening test. Pink-ham challenges the court’s denial of his motion to suppress all evidence that was the fruit of the stop of his automobile by a Skowhegan police officer. We affirm the court’s holding that the stop was lawful.…