State v. Woods

OPINION

HOWE, Judge:

¶ 1 The State of Arizona appeals the superior court’s grant of Anthony Jerome Woods’s motion to suppress evidence of marijuana packages discovered in his car. The superior court ruled that a police officer did not have reasonable suspicion to detain Woods for a narcotics dog sniff of his car despite Woods’s extensive criminal history of drag transportation and the officer’s testimony that circumstances indicated that Woods’s actions were suspicious. Upon our de novo review whether the undisputed facts constitute reasonable suspicion, we hold that the police officer had…