State v. Bulington

SULLIVAN, Justice.

The police asked a Meijer Superstore to report every customer who bought three or more packages of cold medicine. Acting on such a report, the police stopped and searched defendant Robert Buling-ton's truck and discovered various other substances used to produce methamphetamine. He was charged with the crime of "Possession of Precursors of Methamphetamine." We affirm the trial judge's deci-ston that there was insufficient evidence to create the reasonable suspicion necessary to justify stopping defendant's truck.

Background

The Lafayette Police Department drug task force asked…