State v. Stenhouse

• Court: Court of Appeals of South Carolina
• Decided: October 25, 2017
• Docket: 2017-UP-407
• Status: Unpublished

Opinion

THIS OPINION HAS NO PRECEDENTIAL VALUE. IT SHOULD NOT BE CITED OR RELIED ON AS PRECEDENT IN ANY PROCEEDING EXCEPT AS PROVIDED BY RULE 268(d)(2), SCACR.

THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA In The Court of Appeals

The State, Respondent,

v.

Detrick L. Stenhouse, Appellant.

Appellate Case No. 2016-000154

Appeal From Greenville County J. Cordell Maddox, Jr., Circuit Court Judge

Unpublished Opinion No. 2017-UP-407 Submitted September 1, 2017 – Filed October 25, 2017

AFFIRMED

Deputy Chief Appellate Defender Wanda H. Carter, of Columbia, for Appellant.

Attorney General Alan McCrory Wilson and Assistant Attorney General William Frederick Schumacher, IV, both of Columbia; and Solicitor William Walter Wilkins, III, of Greenville, all for Respondent. PER CURIAM: Affirmed pursuant to Rule 220(b), SCACR, and the following authorities: State v. Baccus, 367 S.C. 41, 48, 625 S.E.2d 216, 220 (2006) ("In criminal cases, the appellate court sits to review errors of law only."); State v. Missouri, 361 S.C. 107, 111, 603 S.E.2d 594, 596 (2004) ("When reviewing a Fourth Amendment search and seizure case, an appellate court must affirm the trial [court's] ruling if there is any evidence to support the ruling."); State v. Provet, 405 S.C. 101, 108, 747 S.E.2d 453, 457 (2013) ("A traffic stop supported by reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation remains valid until the purpose of the traffic stop has been completed."); id. ("[A]n officer's inquiries into matters unrelated to the justification for the traffic stop . . . do not convert the encounter into something other than a lawful seizure, so long as those inquiries do not measurably extend the duration of the stop." (quoting Arizona v. Johnson, 555 U.S. 323, 333 (2009))); Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032, 1049 (1983) ("[T]he search of the passenger compartment of an automobile, limited to those areas in which a weapon may be placed or hidden, is permissible if the police officer possesses a reasonable belief based on 'specific and articulable facts which, taken together with the rational inferences from those facts, reasonably warrant' the officers in believing the suspect is dangerous and the suspect may gain immediate control of weapons." (quoting Terry v. Ohio, 392 U.S. 1, 21 (1968))); State v. Woodruff, 344 S.C. 537, 549, 544 S.E.2d 290, 296 (Ct. App. 2001) ("[A] protective search—permitted without a warrant and on the basis of reasonable suspicion less than probable cause—must be strictly 'limited to that which is necessary for the discovery of weapons which might be used to harm the officer or others nearby.'" (quoting Terry, 392 U.S. at 26)).

AFFIRMED.1

SHORT, KONDUROS, and GEATHERS, JJ., concur.

1 We decide this case without oral argument pursuant to Rule 215, SCACR.