State v. Lemert

OPINION

HUDSON, Judge.

Appellant challenges the denial of his motion to suppress evidence resulting from a pat search after police stopped a truck in which he was a passenger, based on reasonable suspicion that the driver was involved in selling large amounts of methamphetamine. Based on appellant’s presence in a vehicle stopped on suspicion that its driver had recently engaged in large-scale drug activity, police had an objectively reasonable basis to pat search appellant. Accordingly, we affirm appellant’s conviction.

FACTS

Following a stop of a truck based on reasonable suspicion that the…