State v. Dixon

PATRICIA BRECKENRIDGE, Judge.

The State appeals from the order of the trial court sustaining Hal Dixon’s motion to suppress. In its sole point on appeal, the State asserts that the trial court erred in sustaining Mr. Dixon’s motion to suppress because the encounter between Corporal Eldon Grissom of the Missouri State Highway Patrol and Mr. Dixon was not a seizure under the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and article 1, section 15 of the Missouri Constitution. The State contends that the circumstances surrounding the encounter between Corporal Grissom and Mr. Dixon would have…