Cox v. State

In this case, we must determine whether Artavius Donnell Cox (“Petitioner”) was entitled to have suppressed, as evidence at his trial, a quantity of marijuana that the police found on the ground near him, after an arguably illegal stop. The drugs seized in this case were recovered after the police obtained information that there existed an outstanding warrant for Petitioner’s arrest. We are asked to review two issues. First, whether a police encounter, in which a uniformed officer approached Petitioner on the street claiming that he “loosely fit” the description of the perpetrator of a recent…