State v. Richard E. Houghton, Jr.

¶ 81. (dissenting). The majority opinion reverses the decision of the court of appeals and affirms the defendant's conviction. The conviction was based on a denial of the defendant's motion to suppress evidence obtained from a traffic stop. The traffic stop was predicated on a law enforcement officer's mistake of law, which the majority opinion deems "objectively reasonable."1

¶ 82. By declaring for the first time that reasonable suspicion for a traffic stop can rest on a law enforcement officer's objectively reasonable mistake of law, the majority opinion adopts a new interpretation *269of…