Lewis v. State

Dillard, Judge.

In this interlocutory appeal, John Lewis contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, arguing that a sheriff’s deputy lacked reasonable, articulable suspicion to justify the traffic stop at issue. For the reasons set forth infra, we agree and reverse the trial court’s denial of Lewis’s motion to suppress.

Construing the evidence in the light most favorable to uphold the trial court’s findings and judgment,1 the record shows that around 1:00 a.m. on January 2,2011, a deputy of the Twiggs County Sheriff’s Office was dispatched to the area of West Clyde…