IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE
STATE OF DELAWARE )
) ID No. 1801000980
v. ) ln and For Kent County
)
BREMONTE R. PALl\/IER, )
Defendant. )
ORDER
Submitted: August l, 2018
Decided: August 13, 2018
Upon Defendant’s Motion 10 suppress
DENIED
Gn this the 13th day of August, 2018, having considered Defendant Bremonte
Palmer’s (hereinafter “Defendant”) motion to suppress and the State’s response, as vvell
as evidence and argument offered at a hearing held August l, 20 l 8, the Court finds that
the motion to suppress must he DENIED.
Defendant seeks suppression of drug contraband seized from his person pursuant
to a police stop of a vehicle in vvhich Defendant vvas a passenger on January 2, 20l8.
The following facts are those as found by the Court by a preponderance of the evidence
I. Factual Background
At approximately 3:30 p.m. on the day in question, Troopers Solda and Holl of
the Delavvare State Police Were conducting surveillance in Woodside, Delavvare, When
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they observed a red Dodge Charger (hereinafter the “Vehicle”) stop on the shoulder of
the road With its hazard lights on. The driver of the Vehicle, Donald Bratcher, exited
on foot and approached a house nearby. Bratcher tested the doorknob and, finding the
door to be locked, returned to the Vehicle and drove away. The Vehicle still had its
hazard lights on as it pulled onto the roadway and did not utilize its turn signal
The Vehicle continued along the road for a short time before Solda and Holl
initiated a traffic stop. The Vehicle pulled over to the shoulder and Solda and Holl
approached on foot. The officers discovered Bratcher driving the vehicle and also
observed Defendant in the front passenger seat, and another passenger in the back seat,
Savannah Walker.
The troopers began to collect information and documentation from the Vehicle
occupants, but Bratcher Was unable to produce registration or insurance documents for
the Vehicle, and Wall