State v. Gooch

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

The State appeals from an order of the Gwinnett Superior Court granting Clayton Jewell Gooch’s motion to suppress drugs located during a consent search of his person. Because the trial court’s ruling was based on an erroneous application of law to the facts of this case, we reverse.

The only evidence at the motion to suppress was adduced from the testimony of the two officers on the scene; Gooch did not testify or otherwise contest the officers’ testimony. “When reviewing a trial court’s order on a motion to suppress where the facts are undisputed, we apply a de novo standard…