State v. Parke

Bernes, Judge.

The state appeals the trial court’s grant of the motion to suppress filed by defendant Thomas Melvin Parke, who was arrested following a traffic stop and charged by accusation with several drug and traffic-related offenses. Because the trial court was authorized to find that the police officer who initiated the traffic stop lacked articulable suspicion to believe that Parke was impeding the flow of traffic, we must affirm.

On appeal from the grant of a motion to suppress, we construe the evidence in the light most favorable to upholding the trial court’s ruling. Andrews v. State,…