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Appellate court hears argument over legality of DUI stop after incomplete BOLO record
Summary
At oral argument in a Williamson County DUI appeal, defense counsel said the state failed to prove who conducted the initial stop, while the prosecutor argued timing and a matching description justified the seizure; the panel questioned whether the suppression record contained specific facts of intoxication.
NASHVILLE — Jonathan Turner, counsel for appellant David Paul, told an appellate panel that the state failed to prove who conducted the initial warrantless seizure in a DUI case originating in Williamson County on July 3, 2022.
“This is a DUI case out of Williamson County,” Turner said, and argued at the suppression hearing the prosecution called only one witness and "they didn't call any of the witnesses that actually had the had the lights on… That evidence is just completely missing," leaving the record incomplete about the circumstances of the stop.
The heart of the appeal is whether the initial seizure was supported by reasonable suspicion. Turner told the panel that while Officer Jared Anderson of the Franklin Police Department testified that a BOLO…
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