State v. Kaufman

¶1 This consolidated appeal raises the question of whether a police officer possessed particularized suspicion to justify an investigative stop of a vehicle occupied by the three Appellants. We reverse the Fourth Judicial District Court and conclude that when the officer determined prior to the stop that the vehicle’s lighting system was not malfunctioning, he lacked the requisite particularized suspicion to conduct an investigative stop. Since the issue of whether the investigative stop was supported by particularized suspicion is dispositive, we do not reach the other issues raised by the…