C.J. v. State

We affirm the final judgment of delinquency and disposition thereon for unlawful possession of cocaine based on a holding that the trial court properly denied the respondent C.J.’s motion to suppress. Although the evidence below is somewhat in conflict, the trial court was privileged to find that (1) the respondent dropped a plastic bag of cocaine to the ground as two police officers approached the respondent and his companion in the outside stairwell of an apartment building, and (2) neither officer gave any order to the respondent prior to the discard of the plastic bag of cocaine; indeed,…