Search & Seizure - Consensual Encounter - Man In Parked Car - Drugs In Bag
By Deborah Elkins
August 27, 2008
Police had reasonable articulable suspicion to seize defendant and order him out of his car after he three times failed to comply with a police request not to reach down to the floorboard of his car, parked in a motel parking lot where police recently made other drug busts, and the drugs found in a black bag defendant pulled up from the car floorboard need not be suppressed, the Court of Appeals holds.
Jones v. Commonwealth (Va.Ct.App.) (VLW 008-7-394) (18 pp.)
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