State v. Hoskins

WIGGINS, Justice.

In this appeal, the State seeks further review of a court of appeals decision suppressing evidence found in a warrantless search of the defendant’s vehicle. Because probable cause and exigent circumstances supported the search, we vacate the decision of the court of appeals. As a consequence of vacating the court of appeals’ decision, we must also decide if the defendant’s trial counsel was ineffective for failing to move for disclosure of the identity of the confidential informant and for failing to raise a specific sufficiency-of-the-evidence claim during the defendant’s…