State v. Pogue

McEVERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] The State appeals from a district court order granting Rebekah Maxine Po-gue’s motion to suppress evidence. We affirm the district court’s order because the State did not satisfy its burden to show law enforcement’s warrantless search of Pogue’s vehicle qualified as a valid inventory search, an exception to the warrant requirement, or that the good faith exception to the exclusionary rule applies.

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[¶ 2] Officer Andrew Langowski, a Watford City police officer, initiated a traffic stop of a vehicle for exceeding the speed limit. The driver of the vehicle could not produce…