Riggins v. State

VILLANTI, Judge.

Demetrius Riggins appeals his convictions for escape, driving while license suspended or revoked as a habitual traffic offender, resisting arrest without violence, operating an unregistered vehicle, and unlawful use of a temporary tag. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

On August 18, 2008, Sergeant Burgess, an officer with the Office of Motor Carrier Compliance of the Department of Transportation, stopped the car Riggins was driving because Burgess saw that it had what appeared to be an expired temporary tag.1 When Burgess asked Riggins for his driver’s license,…