C.A.M. v. State

I respectfully dissent. I would affirm the trial court’s order denying the motion to suppress because the state’s evidence adequately supported a finding that the deputy had probable cause for seizing the package of marijuana after the pat-down.

Here, as in Doctor, the officer testified about his extensive training and experience with the particular drug in question. He testified that during his fourteen-year career in law enforcement, he had been trained..in narcotics identification and investigation; made hundreds of narcotics arrests; taught classes on narcotics identification; been…