Conyers v. State

ALTENBERND, Judge.

Joseph Winfred Conyers appeals his judgments and sentences for possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia. He pleaded guilty to both counts after the trial court denied his dispositive motion to suppress the drug paraphernalia, a glass tube crack pipe. A police officer had seized the paraphernalia during a consensual patdown search of Mr. Co-nyers. The issue in this case is whether an experienced narcotics officer can establish probable cause to remove a glass tube from a pocket during a consensual search to confirm the officer’s suspicion that it is drug…