State v. Czmowski

MORGAN, Justice.

This is an intermediate appeal in a prosecution for driving while under the influence of alcohol. The state appeals from a magistrate’s order granting the defendant’s motion to suppress all evidence obtained by law enforcement officers after they stopped defendant to investigate his driving. We reverse and remand.

Late one September afternoon in 1984 the Meade County/Sturgis, South Dakota, law enforcement dispatcher received a call from an anonymous male caller reporting a possible drunk driver. The caller reported that he was at a Sturgis truck stop and that he had been…