Connor v. State

Hall, Presiding Judge.

This is an appeal with a certificate from the denial of defendant’s motion to suppress marijuana, of which he has been charged with possession of less than one ounce.

At the hearing below, the arresting officer testified that he had been asked by the high school principal to patrol a school parking lot which was generally invisible from the roadway and from which there had been numerous thefts as well as suspected drug traffic. The defendant himself confirmed in his testimony the prevalence of the thefts. The officer saw the defendant’s car begin to enter the lot at a…