City of Devils Lake v. Grove

MARING, Justice.

[¶ 1] The City of Devils Lake appeals a district court order granting David Grove’s motion to suppress evidence. Grove moved to suppress the results of sobriety tests conducted after law enforcement officers transported him from the scene of a traffic stop to the Lake Region Law Enforcement Center. We hold that, under the totality of the circumstances, the officer’s transport of Grove away from the scene of the traffic stop constituted a de facto arrest because it was not constitutionally justified by the officers’ reasonable and articulable suspicion that Grove had been…