State v. Mann

OPINION

Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

On July 12, 2003, at approximately 2 a.m., West Warwick police officer Jason Greene stopped a small black pickup truck after noticing that the truck’s in-tow dolly trailer lacked visible license plates. 1 A routine license check further revealed that the driver’s license of the truck’s operator, Edward Mann (defendant), had been suspended by the Department of Motor Vehicles. Officer Greene arrested the defendant and placed him in the patrol vehicle. After contacting a towing company to impound the pickup truck and dolly trailer, Officer Greene conducted an…