State v. Jones

BLACKBURN, Presiding Judge.

Following an evidentiary hearing, the trial court entered a detailed order granting Willie Jones’s motion to suppress, which order the State appeals. Based on the testimony given at the hearing, the court found that the police escalated a first-tier encounter to a second-tier encounter without a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity, and that the police had no reason to believe Jones had or intended to use a weapon. Because some evidence supported the trial court’s findings, we affirm.

When reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we…