State v. Golden

Blackburn, Judge.

The appellee Billy Golden was charged by accusation with driving under the influence of alcohol, driving without a driver’s license, and driving without a tag. The trial court granted Golden’s motion to suppress the evidence. On appeal, the State contends that the trial court erred in determining that no “articulable suspicion” existed to justify the initial stop by the Cobb County police officer.

Officer Bolenbaugh, with the Cobb County Police Department, testified at the motion to suppress hearing that on November 25, 1992, 1 he was dispatched on a suspicious vehicles call…