State v. Celusniak

OPINION

PICKARD, J.

{1} Defendant entered a conditional plea in magistrate court, reserving the right to appeal her motion to suppress. This case is before us on appeal following the district court’s decision to deny the motion. The procedural posture of the case gives us the opportunity to clarify the approach for litigating reserved issues when a conditional plea is entered in the magistrate court. The merits of Defendant’s challenge of the district court’s denial of her motion to suppress give us the opportunity to explore issues of abandonment and consent when a passenger leaves a purse in…