State v. Hayen

MEIERHENRY, Justice.

[¶ 1.] .The State of South Dakota appeals from a circuit court order suppressing evidence obtained from a traffic stop on a main thoroughfare in Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. A Sioux Falls police officer, Officer Flogstad, stopped Wade Hayen because he was unable to see the expiration date on the bottom of the temporary thirty-day dealer’s license. The temporary license was properly positioned and displayed on the rear driver’s side window of Hayen’s new pickup truck; however, a box in the back of the pickup obstructed the bottom of the license preventing…