Donnie R. Robinson, Appellant v. State of Arkansas, Appellee — Hart, J., Dissenting

Summary

Justice Hart dissented from the majority’s conclusion that a partially broken taillight emitting both red and white light violated the taillight statute and supplied probable cause for the traffic stop. The dissent reasoned that the statute expressly required red light but did not clearly prohibit additional white light, and that the record lacked a factual basis for applying the separate statute concerning glaring light. Justice Danielson, concurring, would affirm because the taillight’s emission of white light in addition to red light gave the officer probable cause to believe the taillight statute had been violated.