State v. Whitt

Adams, Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting defendant Keith P. Whitt’s motion to suppress.

The State does not challenge the trial court’s factual findings, but argues that the trial court misapplied and misinterpreted the law by holding that once an officer concludes a traffic stop and tells a suspect he is free to leave, the officer cannot continue to lawfully detain a suspect unless the officer develops a reasonable, articulable suspicion of other criminal activity based on facts and circumstances not known or present during the initial investigation. In other words,…