Jackson v. State

I would reverse the trial court’s order denying Appellant’s dispositive motion to suppress because the deputies lacked a well-founded suspicion of criminal activity to justify the stop.

The difficulty with this case stems from the trial court’s failure to make a finding as to whose testimony it found believable. What we are left with are the findings made in the written order denying the motion to dismiss, which reflect that while Courtney Wilson might have seen Donald Evans at the home earlier in the day, he did not see him at the home while he conducted surveillance. Wilson merely observed a…