A-111-13 State v. Thomas Shannon(074315)

The Court granted the State leave to appeal an interlocutory order of the Appellate Division. The Appellate Division’s order affirmed the grant of defendant’s motion to suppress evidence seized after his arrest on a warrant that, unbeknownst to the arresting officers, had been judicially vacated eighteen months earlier but had not been removed from the relevant computer database showing active warrants.

I and the concurring members of the Court conclude that defendant’s arrest — made in the absence of either a valid warrant or probable cause — was unlawful. In accordance with our decision in…