Brown v. State

Beasley, Presiding Judge.

Brown entered a negotiated plea of guilty to possession of cocaine, OCGA § 16-13-30 (a), expressly conditioned upon the right to appeal the denial of his motion to suppress the contraband. See generally Springsteen v. State, 206 Ga. App. 150 (424 SE2d 832) (1992).

Acting on a tip from a concerned citizen that a black male wearing a red hat, green shirt and blue pants was selling cocaine on Hughes Street, two uniformed police officers proceeded together to that location. The area was known to the officers for its heavy drug activity. Based on their observation of two…