State v. Shepley

NO. COA14-390 NORTH CAROLINA COURT OF APPEALS Filed: 4 November 2014 STATE OF NORTH CAROLINA v. Buncombe County No. 11 CRS 63608 MATTHEW SMITH SHEPLEY Appeal by defendant from judgment entered 9 September 2013 by Judge James U. Downs in Buncombe County Superior Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 11 September 2014. Attorney General Roy Cooper by Assistant Attorney General Joseph L. Hyde for the State. Wait Law, P.L.L.C., by John L. Wait, for defendant- appellant. STEELMAN, Judge. The law enforcement officer’s stop of defendant was justified by reasonable suspicion. Where the officer obtained…