Salt Lake City v. Hughes

MEMORANDUM DECISION

VOROS, Judge:

{1 Defendant Austin James Hughes appeals from a Sery plea to several class B misdemeanors. 1 See generally State v. Sery, 758 P.2d 935, 938-40 (Utah Ct.App.1988). He challenges the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence obtained after he was stopped by police. Hughes contends that the stop was not justified at its inception; he does not challenge the scope of the detention. 'We affirm. 2

T2 At 2:80 a.m. on February 15, 2009, with temperatures in the twenties, a Salt Lake City police officer noticed Hughes, clad in jeans and a T-shirt, running at…