Manning v. State

OPINION

Appellant having been convicted of possession of marijuana (NRS 453.030), his sole claim of error is that “[t]he court below erred in denying Appellant’s Motion to Suppress evidence produced from the illegal arrest of the Appellant, such arrest not being made under probable cause.”

The record reflects that Officer Christopher, who knew appellant by name and had a field identification card concerning him, observed appellant smoking a cigarette as the officer drove toward him in a marked police vehicle. Apparently seeing the police car, appellant flipped his cigarette in such a way as to…