IN: Stop on erroneous BMV record registration expired was still reasonable under Heien

The officer here was driving around running LPNs, and defendant’s came back from BMV as “expired” even though that day was the last day of the registration, October 15, 2015. He stopped defendant, and several warrants surfaced on defendant. The stop was in good faith reliance on the BMV record. It would logically appear, from other statutes, that the registration didn’t expire until midnight. “Even assuming that Officer Taylor was ultimately mistaken in his belief that a violation occurred, the traffic stop was based upon a good faith, reasonable belief that a statutory infraction had occurred.” Therefore, it was reasonable under Heien v. North Carolina. Dowdy v. State, 2017 Ind. App. LEXIS 386 (Sept. 7, 2017).