State v. Hutchins

¶ 1. This suppression-of-the-evidence case asks us whether all turns of the steering wheel require a signal. We respond that they do not. Defendant appeals the criminal division’s denial of his motion to suppress and dismiss his charge for driving under the influence (DUI). In that motion, defendant claimed the evidence underlying his DUI charge should have been suppressed because the arresting officers lacked reasonable suspicion to justify an investigative stop of his vehicle. The trial court found that defendant violated Vermont’s turn-signal statute, so the arresting officers had…