State v. Brown

DANA, Justice.

The State appeals from an order of the District Court (Augusta, Gorman, J.) suppressing evidence obtained from an investigatory stop of Timothy Brown’s vehicle. The State contends that the court was compelled to find that the stop of Brown’s vehicle was based on a reasonable and articulable suspicion. We agree and vacate the judgment.

The court accepted the testimony of Officer Jonathan Mazzaro of the Hallowell Police Department who testified at the suppression hearing as follows: At 1:15 a.m. in the early morning hours of July 8, 1995, he was on patrol driving north on Water…