State v. Bolden

BROWN, Judge.

This pre-trial application for supervisory writ arises from a pending criminal matter. The state has charged defendant with possession of cocaine with intent to distribute. The state seeks reversal of the trial court’s grant of a defense motion to suppress the cocaine seized in the search of an apartment.

Facts

Monroe P.D. Officers Passman, Richardson and Melton, driving a marked police car, were checking various locations in the city known to be high drug activity areas. They saw defendant sitting on an apart-*2merit house stairwell near a public sidewalk drinking a bottle of beer.…