State v. Herrera

OPINION

WECHSLER, Judge.

{1} The State appeals the district court finding that Investigator Bill Hubbard needed reasonable suspicion to justify checking Defendant Daniel B. Herrera’s license plate and that because he did not have reasonable suspicion, the evidence obtained after the license plate check was “fruit of the poisonous tree” and therefore inadmissible. We clarify that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in his license plate number or vehicle identification number (VIN) and hold that Investigator Hubbard’s license plate check on Defendant’s vehicle was not a search…