State v. Pompei

Summary

The court affirmed the defendant’s convictions, holding that the officer’s positioning of his cruiser behind the defendant’s parked vehicle was a reasonable community-caretaking intrusion rather than an investigatory seizure. The officer was responding to a report of a potentially unconscious person, did not activate his lights, and acted to assess the defendant’s well-being and prevent the vehicle from moving. The court therefore upheld the denial of the motion to suppress.