State v. Brown

OPINION

SUMMERS, Judge.

The appellee, Rodney Brown, was indicted in Lincoln County for possessing a controlled substance with intent to sell, obstructing an arrest, and attempting to destroy evidence. Appellee filed a motion to suppress all evidence seized from him while in custody. The trial court found that the investigatory stop which produced the evidence in question was not supported by reasonable and articulable suspicion and therefore granted the appel-lee’s motion to suppress.

Because the trial court’s suppression of the evidence against the appellee has the substantive effect of a…