Legal Opinion
Roberts v. Commonwealth
Court of Appeals of Virginia
Decided November 10, 2009No. 2486081PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FELTON, Chief Judge.
Following the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence seized from him, Kevin Nathaniel Roberts (“appellant”) was convicted, consistent with his conditional guilty plea, of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute in violation of Code § 18.2-248. On appeal, he contends the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence of a plastic bag containing five individually packaged rocks of cocaine seized from his hand. For the following reasons, we reverse the judgment of the trial court.
BACKGROUND
In our review of a trial court’s denial of a…
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