State v. Pennyman

Miller, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s grant of Michael Pennyman’s motion to suppress evidence resulting from a traffic stop. Because there was reasonable suspicion to authorize the stop, we reverse.

In reviewing the trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we defer to the trial court’s findings of fact unless they are clearly erroneous, and we construe the evidence most favorably to the trial court’s decision.

At the hearing on the motion to suppress, the officer who was driving the patrol car was unavailable to testify Officer Nowell, the passenger of the patrol car, testified…