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STATE OF TENNESSEE v. JUSTIN ANDREW JONES

Posted by: Tanja Trezise on Nov 26, 2014

Court: TN Court of Criminal Appeals

Attorneys 1:

Bryce W. McKenzie (at plea hearing and on appeal); and Bryan E. Delius (at motions hearing and on appeal), Sevierville, Tennessee, for the appellant, Justin Andrew Jones.

Attorneys 2:

Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Renee W. Turner, Senior Counsel; James B. Dunn, District Attorney General; and Gregory C. Eshbaugh, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.

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Appellant, Justin Andrew Jones, pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of an intoxicant and was sentenced to eleven months and twenty-nine days, suspended to probation after forty-eight hours of incarceration. As part of the plea agreement, appellant reserved a certified question of law in which he challenged the denial of his motion to suppress. On appeal, appellant argues that the trial court erred by denying his motion to suppress because the arresting officer did not have reasonable suspicion to stop appellant and because the officer was acting outside of his community caretaking function when he stopped appellant. Following our review of the briefs, the record, and the applicable law, we dismiss appellant’s appeal.

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