EWELL v. COM.

Record No. 962304.

491 S.E.2d 721 (1997)

Virginia Ann EWELL v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

September 12, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Burnside, Virginia Beach, for appellant.

Michael T. Judge, Asst. Atty. Gen. (James S. Gilmore, III, Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellee.

Present: CARRICO, C.J., COMPTON, STEPHENSON, LACY, HASSELL, and KEENAN, JJ., and WHITING, Senior Justice.


STEPHENSON, Justice.

The sole issue in this appeal is whether a police officer, who stopped and detained an operator of an automobile, had a reasonable articulable suspicion that the operator may be engaged in criminal activity.

Virginia Ann Ewell was indicted in the Circuit Court of the City of Virginia Beach for possession of cocaine in violation of Code § 18.2-250. Ewell moved the trial court to suppress the evidence obtained as a result of the stop...

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