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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. SOMER D. WILD

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Aug 20, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Jonathan M. Holcomb, Morristown, Tennessee, for the appellant, Somer D. Wild.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Deshea Dulany Faughn, Assistant Attorney General; C. Berkeley Bell, District Attorney General; and Dan E. Armstrong, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

Judge(s): GLENN

The defendant, Somer D. Wild, was indicted for driving under the influence, a Class A misdemeanor. After the trial court denied her motion to suppress the legality of the traffic stop, the defendant pled guilty to the offense and was sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days, suspended following the service of forty-eight hours in jail. As part of her plea of guilty, the defendant reserved as a certified question of law the legality of the traffic stop of her vehicle. Following our review of the record and the video recording of the traffic stop, we conclude that the trial court erred in denying the motion to suppress. Accordingly, we reverse the judgment of conviction and dismiss the indictment.

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