Parker v. State

Johnson, Presiding Judge.

Roderick Brian Parker and Eugene Herring appeal the trial court’s denial of their motion to suppress evidence of cocaine found during a vehicle search. For reasons which follow, we reverse.

The evidence presented to the trial court was not in dispute. It shows that on June 13, 1996, an officer with the Gwinnett County sheriff’s office stopped a Buick traveling northbound on Interstate 85 for swerving into the emergency lane and moving slower than the flow of traffic.

The officer asked the driver, Herring, to step out of the car and present his driver’s license. Herring…