State v. Akinsonwon

Carley, Judge.

Based upon an encounter at the Atlanta airport, appellee was charged with having given a false name to a law enforcement officer. Appellee filed a pretrial motion to suppress and, at the conclusion of the hearing on appellee’s motion, the trial court stated that it did not “see that there’s been any . . . articulable suspicion [shown] by the State to even begin this sort of thing.” Accordingly, the trial court granted appellee’s motion in an order holding “that the State lacked any ‘articulable suspicion.’ . . .” It is from that order that the State appeals.

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