State v. Meades

BERGER, Justice:

In this appeal, the State seeks review of a Superior Court decision suppressing drug evidence. The trial court decided that the police violated the defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights because, when they detained the defendant, the police lacked a reasonable articulable suspicion that the defendant had committed, was committing, or was about to commit, a crime. The State contends that the defendant was not detained and that the police do not need to have any suspicion of criminal activity when they simply approach a person and ask some questions. Because this argument was not…