Brownstein v. State

LEHAN, Judge.

Defendant appeals from the denial of her motion to suppress capsules of a controlled substance found by the police in defendant’s purse. We reverse.

The capsules were seen by a police officer in the purse while defendant was looking for her driver’s license after the officer had stopped defendant’s car. The officer had no proper basis to stop defendant. The only justifications for the stop were the officer’s testimony that, “Initially I stopped the vehicle to find out if the person was lost, and to let them know they were in a bad part of town and there was some danger being in…