State v. Causey

Blackburn, Presiding Judge.

In Case No. A00A1686, the State appeals the trial court’s order granting Aaron Decarlis Causey’s motion to suppress the evidence, and in Case No. A00A1687, the State appeals the trial court’s order denying its complaint for forfeiture of $3,477 seized from Causey. Both the criminal case and the civil forfeiture case are based on the same transaction in which the trial court determined that the arresting officers lacked sufficient articulable suspicion to justify their stop of Causey. For the reasons set forth below, we reverse the trial court’s grant of Causey’s…