Baker v. State

WISE, Justice.

This Court granted Derek Jermaine Baker’s petition for a writ of certiorari to review the Court of Criminal Appeals’ unpublished memorandum affirming Baker’s conviction and sentence for trafficking in marijuana. See Baker v. State (No. CR-11-0267, December 17, 2012), — So.3d -(Ala.Crim.App.2012) (table). For the reasons set forth below, we reverse and remand.

*1286 Facts and Procedural History

On February 9, 2010, Sgt. Mike Cowart, the supervisor of the Decatur Police Department’s Anti-Crime Unit, was conducting surveillance on a house on Blaine Drive Southwest in Decatur after…