Mary Osborne v. State of Indiana

MASSA, Justice.

Mary Osborne filed this interlocutory appeal following the trial court’s denial of her motion to suppress, on the grounds that the traffic stop giving rise to the charges was not permissible under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article 1, -Section 11 of the Indiana Constitution. Although we believe the officer’s actions in this case were prompted by a genuine desire to serve and protect, we hold that, under .the circumstances, those actions constituted an improper intrusion upon Osborne’s constitutional privileges against - unreasonable search and…