Wells v. State

OPINION

BARNES, Judge.

Case Summary

Mark Wells appeals the denial of his motion to suppress. We reverse.

Issue

The sole restated issue is whether the trial court properly refused to suppress evidence police found during a search of Wells's vehicle.

Facts

On December 16, 2008, Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Officers Theodore Brink and Jarrod Gray 1 were on patrol. As they were driving on Keystone Avenue and approached an interchange with I-65, they saw Wells driving a pickup truck down the exit ramp "at a high rate of speed." Tr. p. 56. The officers at first did not think the vehicle was going to…