Parks v. Commonwealth

Opinion of the Court by

Justice COOPER.

At 8:00 p.m. on February 26, 2002, Appellant, Johnathan Parks, while operating a vehicle owned by his wife, was stopped and arrested at the intersection of Highways 88 and 226 in the town of Peonía, Grayson County, Kentucky. Also arrested were his two passengers, Matthew Morris, who was seated in the right front passenger seat, and Douglas Blakeman, who was seated in the right rear passenger seat. A se;arch of the vehicle conducted after the arrests revealed, inter alia, (1) a black plastic trash bag on the floorboard behind the driver’s seat that…