The hearing court properly denied defendant's motion to suppress physical evidence. When, in a drug-prone area, an officer saw defendant holding a palm-sized plastic bag that the officer recognized from his experience as a possible container for drugs, and when, after the officer merely approached, defendant exhibited a startled expression and appeared to be hiding the bag, the officer had, at least, a founded suspicion of criminal activity warranting a common-law inquiry...
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