Ramirez v. State

Pope, Judge.

Appellant was indicted for trafficking in cocaine. This interlocutory appeal was granted to review whether the trial court properly denied appellant’s motion to suppress.

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on January 20, 1988, Georgia State Patrolman McDermitt observed a maroon Dodge automobile traveling north on 1-95 in Glynn County, Georgia. Because the car had drifted over the right white line into the emergency lane a couple of times, the trooper pulled the car over. Before he got out of his car, the trooper activated a videocamera mounted on the dash of his car and recorded the…