Cooks v. State

Appellant pled no contest to possession of cocaine, reserving the right to appeal the trial court’s denial of his dispositive motion to suppress. We reverse because the state failed to prove that the deputy who stopped Appellant had a reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to justify the stop.

On March 18, 2007, at a little after 4:00 a.m., an Escambia County Sheriffs Deputy was dispatched to investigate a report of suspicious activity called in by a hotel clerk identified in the record only as “Glenda.” At the suppression hearing, the deputy read the Computer Assisted Dispatch (CAD) report…