State v. Cates

Andrews, Presiding Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court’s order granting Christopher Cates’s motion to suppress evidence of cocaine seized after Cates consented to a search of his car. Because this was a first-tier police-citizen encounter involving no coercion or detention, we conclude the consent to search was valid and reverse.

“ ‘When we review a trial court’s decision on a motion to suppress, the evidence is construed most favorably to uphold the findings and judgment of the trial court; the trial court’s findings on disputed facts and credibility are adopted unless they are…