Defendants' suppression motions were properly granted. The officers were justified in stopping defendants' vehicle for a traffic violation, but in the absence of any suspicious circumstances other than allegedly nervous behavior of a minimal and equivocal nature, the police did not have a founded suspicion that criminality was afoot sufficient to justify their clearly accusatory inquiry and their request for consent to search the vehicle's trunk where the weapon was recovered...
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