State v. Topanotes

WILKINS, Justice.

T1 Pearl Topanotes ("'Topanotes"), petitioner, seeks certiorari review of a court of appeals' decision wherein the trial court's denial of her motion to suppress evidence obtained after an unlawful detention was reversed and the case remanded for further proceedings. The remand order allowed new evidence on the issue of inevitable discovery, which was raised by the State as an alternative ground for affirmance for the first time on appeal. The State cross-petitions, arguing that remand is unnecessary because inevitable discovery is sustained by the record in this case. We…