State v. Sawyer

Miller, Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Melea Careen Sawyer’s 1 motion to suppress evidence of methamphetamine found by police during a burglary investigation. The State contends that the trial court erred in granting Sawyer’s motion upon finding her consent to search invalid based upon an impermissibly expanded investigative stop. Discerning error, we reverse.

The trial court based its grant of Sawyer’s motion to suppress upon a conclusion of law that the search was invalid because the scope thereof was impermissibly expanded. We owe no deference to such a ruling…