State v. Willis

Carley, Presiding Judge.

Appellee was charged with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and obstruction of an officer. He filed a pre-trial motion to suppress which was granted by the trial court. It is from that order that the State brings the instant appeal.

It is undisputed that, at the time of initiation of the encounter, the officer had neither probable cause to arrest appellee nor an articulable suspicion of appellee’s criminal activity. According to the officer, he was on routine patrol in the same high-crime area that he had been patrolling for two years when he observed…