Rainey v. State

ON REMAND FROM THE ALABAMA SUPREME COURT

PATTERSON, Judge.

We reversed Timothy Orlando Rainey’s conviction for trafficking in cocaine and entered a judgment for him, holding that the arresting officers exceeded the permissible limits of an investigatory stop permitted under Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 88 S.Ct. 1868, 20 L.Ed.2d 889 (1968), and that the cocaine seized as a result of that stop should have been suppressed. The Alabama Supreme Court, 575 So.2d 607 (Ala.1990), granted the state’s petition for writ of certiorari and reversed our judgment and remanded the case to us on the authority of…