Opinion ID: 2593051
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: How intrusive was the stop?

Text: As noted, the parties agree that Miller was subjected to an investigative stop. [47] We have recognized that an investigative stop is an intermediate response between an arrest based on probable cause and simply allowing a crime to occur, and is designed to enable the police to determine [a suspicious individual's] identity or to maintain the status quo momentarily while obtaining more information. [48] Officer Mickelson testified that he made the investigative stop in this case in order to ask the driver what was going on with the ... argument over at ... Henry's. Officer Mickelson posed that question to Miller, the driver of the vehicle, and he asked if everything was okay, looking at the female passengers as he did so. Officer Mickelson conducted this brief interview through the open window of the Subaru. The stop was minimally intrusive. It was only as Officer Mickelson ensured that no one in the vehicle required assistance as a result of the argument that his attention was drawn to the evidence that Miller was driving while intoxicated.