Boykins v. State

MIKELL, Judge.

Reginald Boykins was indicted for possession of cocaine after the contraband was found in the center console of his vehicle during a search conducted incident to his arrest for a probation violation. Boykins filed a motion to suppress. At the hearing held on the motion, he contended that the police conducted a Terry 1 stop of his vehicle without a reasonable, articulable suspicion of criminal activity and that the search was invalid under Arizona v. Gant, 2 in which the United States Supreme Court significantly curtailed the authority of the police to conduct a warrantless…