State v. Fowler

Blackburn, Judge.

The State appeals the trial court’s grant of defendants’ motions to suppress. James D. Fowler, Derek A. Burnett, and James Wilson were each indicted on one count of possessing cocaine. Burnett was indicted on a second count of possessing marijuana. On appeal, the State asserts that the trial court erred by granting the defendants’ motions to suppress based upon the lack of an articulable suspicion of criminal activity to justify the stops made of them.

The evidence at the suppression hearing reflects that on April 1, 1993, a police surveillance for Fowler, Burnett, and Wilson…