State v. Benters

BRYANT, Judge.

A motion to suppress evidence should be granted where the information presented in the search warrant has not been independently verified or corroborated by the requesting officer. Where a trial court makes competent findings of fact and conclusions of law in granting a motion to suppress evidence, we will not disturb those findings on appeal.

On 29 September 2011, Detective Justin Hastings, a narcotics detective with the Franklin County Sheriffs Office, contacted Lieutenant Joseph Ferguson of the Vance County Sheriffs Office regarding a drug investigation that began in Franklin…