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COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA
Present: Judges Beales, Fulton and Lorish
Argued at Norfolk, Virginia
NAFEESA RAUSHAUM KNIGHT-WALKER
MEMORANDUM OPINION* BY
v. Record No. 1118-23-1 JUDGE JUNIUS P. FULTON, III
JANUARY 28, 2025
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS
Tyneka L.D. Flythe, Judge1
Jason A.S. Drake, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.
J. Brady Hess, Assistant Attorney General (Jason S. Miyares,
Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.
Under a written plea agreement, Nafeesa Knight-Walker entered a conditional guilty plea to
misdemeanor possession of controlled paraphernalia, reserving her right to challenge the trial
court’s denial of her motion to suppress. Upon her plea, the trial court convicted Knight-Walker
and sentenced her to 12 months of incarceration with all 12 months suspended. This appeal follows.
I. BACKGROUND2
On November 15, 2021, Officer Jordan Allen of the Newport News Police Department
was following a silver Nissan sedan driving around 30 miles per hour in a 45 mile-per-hour zone
at about 1:30 a.m. While following the sedan, Allen conducted a registration check on the
* This opinion is not designated for publication. See Code § 17.1-413(A).
1 The Honorable Timothy S. Fisher presided over Knight-Walker’s suppression hearing.
2 “Under the applicable standard of review, we view the evidence in the light most
favorable to the Commonwealth as the party who prevailed below.” Bennett v. Commonwealth,
69 Va. App. 475, 479 n.1 (2018) (citing Riner v. Commonwealth, 268 Va. 296, 303, 327 (2004)).
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