State v. Thurlow

McKUSICK, Chief Justice.

On this appeal, defendant Brian Thurlow challenges a decision of the Superior Court (Penobscot County) not to suppress evi*962dence obtained against him in a Terry1 — type investigatory stop of the automobile he was driving on February 6, 1980, on a public street in Bangor. In the process of routinely checking the identities of the occupants of the stopped vehicle, the police officer discovered that the driver was defendant Thurlow who, as an habitual offender, had had his license indefinitely revoked. Following his indictment for operating a motor vehicle while an…