Rodriguez v. State

After being indicted for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, Sonia Rodriguez filed a pre-trial motion to suppress the marijuana found by police when an officer stopped the vehicle she was driving and searched the vehicle pursuant to her consent. In this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s denial of the motion, Rodriguez claims that her consent was involuntary and the search was illegal under the Fourth Amendment because: (1) there was no valid basis for the initial vehicle stop, and (2) even if the initial stop was valid, police searched the vehicle pursuant to an…