State v. Merrill

The question in the present case is whether the district court erred in overruling the defendant’s motion to suppress a bag of marijuana and a pipe found on his person by the police after they stopped the car in which he was a passenger to arrest the driver on an outstanding warrant. We affirm.

On the evening of April 15, 1994, officer Russell Collier of the Anamosa Police Department stopped a white Camaro driven by William Curtis because an arrest warrant had been issued for Curtis. The defendant, Sean Merrill, was a passenger in the Cama-ro. Collier executed the warrant and placed Curtis in…