State v. Flowers

Andre Flowers appeals from the judgment and sentence entered following his conviction for first degree robbery. He contends that the trial court erred in failing to suppress the fruits of an allegedly illegal search and seizure.

The trial court's unchallenged findings of fact, entered following the suppression hearing, establish the following sequence of events. At about 5 p.m. on July 4, 1988, Grant Hensel, a restaurant employee, was robbed at gunpoint while making a deposit in the night depository of a bank at the Aurora Village mall near 205th and Aurora Avenue North in King County. After…