B.T. v. State

POLEN, Judge.

B.T., a juvenile defendant, pled no contest to possession of cocaine, preserving his right to appeal the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress based on an allegedly illegal search. Finding no legal basis for the officers to have conducted the search that produced the cocaine, we reverse.

The challenged search followed a brief investigatory detention, which in turn followed a legitimate traffic stop while the juvenile defendant, B.T., was riding a bicycle after 11:00 p.m. B.T. argues that the stop, under the circumstances of this case, did not justify a pat-down under…