D.R. v. State

CASANUEVA, Judge.

D.R. appeals from an adjudication of delinquency following her plea to misdemeanor possession of marijuana in which she reserved the right to contest the denial of her dispositive motion to suppress. She claims that the State failed to present sufficient evidence to establish that the police officer had a reasonable suspicion to perform a stop, during which he observed a baggie of marijuana in her mouth. We agree and reverse.

D.R. and her cousin, who was pushing a baby in a stroller, were walking in the center of the street in D.R.’s grandmother’s neighborhood, an area lacking…