STATE v. McKINNEY

No. A03A1705.

593 S.E.2d 865 (2004)

265 Ga. App. 322

The STATE v. McKINNEY.

Court of Appeals of Georgia.

January 28, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gwendolyn R. Keyes, Solicitor General, Jennifer E. Stolarski, Assistant Solicitor General, for appellant.

Priya N. Lakhi, Decatur, for appellee.


SMITH, Chief Judge.

The State appeals from the trial court's order granting Dwayne Calvin McKinney's motion to suppress. The trial court correctly concluded that the officer's initial contact with McKinney was a proper "first tier level interaction," but it erred in concluding that the officer did not thereafter have a reasonable articulable suspicion to conduct a limited pat-down search for weapons. We therefore reverse.

While the trial court's findings...

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