State v. Bowling

OPINION

PEAY, Judge.

This case is an appeal by the State of Tennessee pursuant to T.R.A.P. 3(c)(1) from an order granting the defendant’s motion to suppress certain evidence.

Essentially four questions are raised on appeal. First, whether Officer Poteete’s actions of getting down on his hands and knees with his head very near to the ground, and looking into the garage violated the defendant’s reasonable expectation of privacy, constituting a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution and Article I, Section 7 of the Tennessee Constitution; second,…