State v. Knighten

*897Callow, J.

The defendant appeals his judgment and sentence for vehicular homicide and felony hit and run for the death of a young bicyclist. He appeals, assigning error to the court's refusal to suppress evidence. The Court of Appeals affirmed the convictions on the ground that the evidence was so overwhelming as to render the assumption that evidence had been wrongfully derived from an unlawful Terry1 stop harmless. We affirm the result on other grounds, holding that the stop was a valid arrest rather than an unlawful Terry stop.

In the early morning hours of December 18, 1983, an automobile…