Legal Opinion
ABERCROMBIE v. the STATE.
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided November 3, 2017No. A17A1847PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Dillard, Chief Judge.
*774 David Abercrombie appeals from the trial court's denial of his motion to suppress evidence, contending that the trial court should have granted the motion because (1) the officer who stopped him lacked reasonable, articulable suspicion to do so and (2) the officer did not make a reasonable mistake of law. For the reasons set forth infra , we reverse.
*775 Viewed in the light most favorable to the trial court's ruling, 1 the evidence shows that on May 22, 2015, a law-enforcement officer passed Abercrombie's single-cab pickup truck while driving in the opposite direction and…
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