State v. Walker

HINES, Presiding Justice.

This Court granted a writ of certiorari to the Court of Appeals in Walker v. State, 323 Ga. App. 558 (747 SE2d 51) (2013), to determine if that Court erred in reversing the trial court’s denial of the motion to suppress evidence of cocaine found as a result of an encounter between a police officer and Ernest Walker, Sr. Finding that the Court of Appeals erred, we reverse that Court’s judgment.

According to the facts as found by the trial court after the hearing on Walker’s motion to suppress,1 Officer David Adriance, of the Warner Robins Police Department, was…