Court Opinion

ID: 9673350
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-24 04:10:28.137358+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:16:21.692074
License: Public Domain

Krivosha, C. J.,
concurring in the result.
I concur in the result reached by the majority in this case. I write separately, however, because I do not concur in that portion of the majority opinion which suggests that the officer had a basis either to stop the appellant or to arrest her because he observed four very large truck tires in the trunk at 12:45 a.m. The presence of the tires in the trunk was of no consequence in *738this case. Neither was the fact that appellant, when asked about the tires, replied that they were not hers but she knew whose they were. See Brown v. Texas, 443 U.S. 47, 99 S. Ct. 2637, 61 L. Ed. 2d 357 (1979).
The officer stopped the appellant because he observed appellant did not have a proper license plate, a violation of law. Upon stopping the vehicle and making a check, he determined that there was an outstanding warrant for her arrest. Having once arrested the appellant, there was nothing else to do with the vehicle except secure it by impounding it. And when, later, it appeared that the tires which were in plain view were stolen, the officer obviously had a right to take them into possession. That is all that is involved in this case.