State v. Wise

GREENE, Judge.

Defendant appeals the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress cocaine, after which denial he entered a guilty plea to the charge of possession of cocaine.

At approximately 11:00 p.m. on 19 March 1993, North Carolina Highway Patrolman, T.L. Ashby (Ashby), observed a black Ford Escort traveling north on South Boulevard in Charlotte at approximately sixty-two miles per hour in the forty-five mile per hour zone. *106Ashby testified that the Escort increased its speed when he turned his car around to follow, and then made a sharp turn into a residential neighborhood. Ashby followed…