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Friday, April 17, 2009
Ind. Decisions - Supreme Court decides second case today
In Bannister v. State, a 5-page, 5-0 opinion, Chief Justice Shepard writes:
A police officer on patrol ran a computer check on the license plate of a car that crossed his view at an intersection, and learned that the owner‟s driving license was suspended. The computer check also provided a physical description of the owner, and the officer later testified that this description approximated the characteristics of the driver whom he saw pass his view. The trial court held that the facts available constituted reasonable suspicion to warrant an investigatory stop under the Fourth Amendment. We affirm.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on April 17, 2009 04:54 PM
Posted to Ind. Sup.Ct. Decisions