Nicholas Ray Eugene Brummett v. State of Indiana

── Nicholas Ray Eugene Brummett v. State of Indiana ── Case No.: 23A-CR-01298 Court: Indiana Court of Appeals Date: March 12, 2024 Author: Judge Elaine Brown County of Origin: Madison Category: Criminal Decision: Affirmed Judge Bradford concurs. Judge Vaidik dissents At 8:42 p.m. on March 21, 2020, Anderson Police Officer Brandon Reynolds was patrolling in an area known as a “high traffic area for narcotics” and noticed a silver car drive down an alley, stop at a stop sign, and it “seemed like it wanted to turn one (1) way and then turned another.” Transcript Volume I at 57, 81. Officer Reynolds observed that the driver “seemed like [he] was lost or like [he] was looking for something,” in an area where “there’s a lot of drug activity,” which “caught [Officer Reynolds’s] eye.” Id. at 57.