Legal Opinion
Bethea v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided April 16, 1991No. 0371-89-2PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BENTON, J.
George Bethea, Jr. was convicted at a bench trial for possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. His appeal questions whether a police officer unreasonably detained him during a routine traffic stop of an automobile in which he was a passenger. We hold that the trial judge erred in overruling Bethea’s motion to suppress.
Viewed in the light most favorable to the Commonwealth, Higginbotham v. Commonwealth, 216 Va. 349, 352, 218 S.E.2d 534, 537 (1975), the evidence established that police officers Marvin T. Paulus and Henry F. Warren were in an unmarked automobile at…
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