State v. Blair

Phipps, Judge.

As a result of evidence seized during a traffic stop, Emanual Blair and his co-indictees were charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and other offenses. The State appeals the trial court’s grant of Blair’s motion to suppress the evidence.

On October 14, 1997, Georgia State Patrol Trooper Phillips was operating a stationary radar device along Interstate 85 in Banks County when he stopped an automobile containing four occupants and being driven with a dealer’s drive-out tag. Phillips questioned the car’s driver and front-seat passenger, who was identified as…