State v. Brown

The state appeals the trial court’s order granting appellee’s motion to suppress. We reverse.

Appellee, Teresa Brown, was charged with possession of cocaine. She filed a motion to suppress a homemade pipe, a glass tube pipe and a plastic bag that contained two or three cocaine rocks. At the suppression hearing, the state argued that appellee lacked standing to object to the seizure of the items. The trial judge granted the motion after remarking, “Well, if she got standing to go to jail she ought to have standing to object to it, hasn’t she?”

Appellee and her boyfriend Boo went to an apartment…