Following a bench trial, the Superior Court of Chatham County found David Hesrick guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of sexual exploitation of children, OCGA § 16-12-100 b 8, and two counts of making false statements to law enforcement officers, OCGA § 16-10-20. He appeals, contending that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress evidence seized during a warrantless search of his home. For the following reasons, we affirm. Because the trial court sits as the trier of fact when ruling on a motion to suppress or a motion in limine, its findings based upon conflicting evidence are analogous to a jury verdict and should not be disturbed by a reviewing court if there is any evidence to support them. When we review a trial court’s decision on such motions to exclude evidence, we construe the evidence most favorably to uphold the findings and judgment, and we adopt the trial court’s findings on disputed facts and credibility unless they are clearly erroneous. When the evidence is uncontroverted and no question of witness credibility is presented, the trial court’s application of the law to undisputed facts is subject to de novo appellate review. With mixed questions of fact and law, the appellate court accepts the trial court’s findings on disputed facts and witness credibility unless clearly erroneous, but independently applies the legal principles to the facts. Citations and punctuation omitted. State v. Tousley , 271 placeStateGa.App. 874 611 SE2d 139 2005. Further, “when reviewing a trial court’s ruling on a motion to suppress, we may consider trial testimony in addition to the testimony submitted during the motion to suppress hearing.” Citation and punctuation omitted. Postell v. State , 279 placeStateGa. App. 275, 276 1 630 SE2d 867 2006. Viewed in such light, the evidence in the record shows that, on November 28, 2008, two officers with the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department were dispatched to the scene of a domestic dispute. Upon arrival, they encountered a man, Cody Hoffman, in the front yard. Hoffman was the person who had called the police, and he told the officers that he and the homeowner, Hesrick, had been in a fight earlier that day and that Hesrick had “basically kicked” him out of the residence.
The officers knocked on the front door, and Hesrick unlocked the door and let them into the house. Hesrick told the officers that Hoffman had broken his Hesrick’s glasses and he showed them a bruise around his eye, but he also admitted that the altercation had taken place several days earlier. Hesrick confirmed that Hoffman had been staying at the house “off and on for quite some time,” and said that he wanted the officers to remove Hoffman from his house. The officers explained to Hesrick the legal process of eviction, and Hesrick stated that he would take care of that the next morning.
