State v. Aubin

WELLS, Judge.

Defendant brings forward 19 assignments of error from the trial court’s order challenging the court’s findings and conclusions regarding the initial stop of defendant and resulting questioning, the purported consent, and the scope of the search. We find no error.

We first address the initial stop. An officer’s stop of a car to investigate a potential traffic offense does not require probable cause, but it is governed by the reasonableness standards of the Fourth Amendment. State v. Jones, 96 N.C. App. 389, 386 S.E.2d 217 (1989). This Court set out the guidelines for such stops in…