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Lloyd v. State

The officer was justified in stopping the defendant since he matched the description of a person who fled an earlier traffic stop and he jumped in a car and tried to flee when the officer asked him to stop.

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Ronald Lloyd was charged with possessing cocaine found in his jacket pocket after the police stopped his car. He pled not guilty to the charge and moved to suppress the cocaine. The trial judge denied the motion, after which Lloyd was tried before the judge sitting without a jury. The trial court found Lloyd guilty of possessing cocaine. Lloyd appeals, arguing that the trial court should have granted his motion to suppress on the ground that the stop of his car was unlawful. The argument is without merit because the officer who stopped the car had reasonable grounds for doing so.

At about 4:00 in the morning on January 7, 1999, Cobb County Police Officer Maddox stopped a vehicle, and the driver of that vehicle fled on foot. Officer Mitchell, who was also on patrol that morning, went to the scene of the stop. Officer Maddox told Officer Mitchell that the person who fled was an African-American male wearing a light blue or grey top and matching pants, and that he had fled in the direction of the Cumberland Lodge, a known drug and prostitution area.

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