Vansant v. State

I respectfully dissent to Division 2 of the majority opinion. The *322evidence at trial admits of several factors that came into play in the Albany police officer’s decision to conduct an investigatory stop of Vansant’s vehicle in order to locate a specific person. Those factors are: the particular description of the vehicle involved in the hit-and-run as a white van; the van’s presence less than a mile from the restaurant minutes after the incident had been reported; the sparsity of any other vehicles in the area at 1:30 a.m. in Albany; and the van’s passage along a major route leading from the…