Mathis v. State

Summary

The Court affirmed the denial of Mathis’s motion to suppress a firearm seized after officers pursued and stopped him. It held that the officers had reasonable, articulable suspicion based on observing Mathis violate an open-container ordinance and then flee while aware they were police. The Court deferred to the Superior Court’s factual finding that Mathis knew the occupants of the vehicle were police when he began fleeing.